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

up their lives.”

Ah.

Yes.

It couldn’t be my lived experience.

It couldn’t be my exhaustion.

It couldn’t be twenty years of carrying everything.

It had to be… “ideas.”

I stepped closer, still in the doorway.

“Tell your buddy,” I said softly, “that the internet didn’t put my dog on that rug.”

Dave’s face tightened.

He opened the bag again like a man who thinks continue reading …