The Night Before Our Wedding, I Heard What He Really Thought of Me

and he chuckled—a sound I had heard a thousand times directed at jokes and stories and the small, daily absurdities of life together, and which I now heard for the first time as it actually was: the laugh of a man who is amused by his own cleverness and contemptuous of the person it is being deployed against. “She’s desperate, Mom. Look at her. Two continue reading …