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PART 1<\/strong><\/h1>\n

After twenty-seven years of marriage, Frank told me I had \u201clet myself go\u201d and walked out for another woman. I thought he had taken my confidence with him, until three months later, I found a forgotten box in the garage that reminded me exactly who had kept our family standing.<\/p>\n

That was Frank\u2019s favorite dinner. For nearly three decades, every Thursday evening smelled of butter, rosemary, and garlic. I set the dish on the table and waited for him to do what he always did: loosen his tie, kiss my head, and say, \u201cSmells good, Greta.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that night, he only stood by the chair and said, \u201cI\u2019m not hungry.\u201dI turned from the counter. \u201cSince when?\u201d<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t smile. \u201cI don\u2019t want dinner. And I don\u2019t want this anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

Us,\u201d he said. \u201cI want a divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n

The oven ticked behind me while my hands tightened around the mitts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been married twenty-seven years,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen say it like that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

He looked away, and I understood.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there someone else?\u201d<\/p>\n

His silence answered before his mouth did.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer name is Brittany.\u201d<\/p>\n

She ran a mobile spa. He said she made him feel alive. She listened. She cared about herself. Then his eyes moved over my cardigan, my clipped-up hair, my short nails, and the burn mark on my wrist.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreta,\u201d he said, \u201cyou let yourself go.\u201d<\/p>\n

I stared at him. \u201cWhere did I go, Frank? To your mother\u2019s appointments? To the grocery store? To Atlas\u2019s games? To Aria\u2019s recitals? To the life you kept asking me to manage?\u201d<\/p>\n

He left that night with two suitcases and the leather jacket I had bought him for his fiftieth birthday.<\/p>\n

By the end of the month, he had a rental across town, and our marriage was being divided by lawyers like it had only been paperwork.I wrapped the untouched chicken pot pie in foil because I didn\u2019t know what else to do. Then I sat at the kitchen table until the candles burned low and the house stopped pretending it was whole.<\/p>\n

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