I Refused to Give My Card to His Sister and Breakfast Turned Into Something I Didn’t Expect

not planned for.

That was the clarification I sat with in the urgent care parking lot.

He was not, in his own understanding, a man who abused his wife. He was a man who had certain expectations of how things should be arranged and who expressed displeasure physically when those arrangements were disrupted. That distinction, from where I sat with the continue reading …