The 7:00 PM Pill: When “Nice” Isn’t Enough to Stay Married

see in movies where the music swells and someone runs a hand through your hair. This was silent crying. The kind that feels like a leak behind the walls.

My phone buzzed for the seventeenth time.

DAVE: Where are you?

DAVE: This is insane, Linda.

DAVE: Please answer. I’m worried.

There it was. The magic word.

Worried.

Like worry was a costume you could put continue reading …