Where do you want to eat?
Where do you want to eat? I don't care. It happened years ago—before kids, before the house, back when we were still in that cramped apartment with the temperamental dishwasher and the neighbors who fought at 2 AM. We'd been married maybe a year, still figuring out the grooves of each other, the places where our personalities scraped instead of fit. This particular Friday, I'd come home from work exhausted. My brain felt like cotton wool stuffed too tightly into my skull. All I wanted was food I didn't have to cook and a glass of wine I didn't have to pour myself. He was on the couch when I walked in, still in his work clothes, relaxing. He looked up and smiled—that slow, easy smile that usually made my shoulders drop from my ears—and said, "Hey, beautiful. Rough day?" "The roughest." I kicked off my shoes and collapsed onto the cushion beside him, letting my head fall back against the upholstery. "Feed me. Please. I cannot make decisions ...