Every single thing about how I live was built by a woman who had accepted that.

And you turning out to have been lied to doesn’t unbuild it.

It just means the reason was different.

“I like what I’ve got.

I’m not dismantling it to give you back a version of yourself where none of this happened.”

So what we have is this.

We are two people who share a child and who are, by now, something close to friends, and who talk about him on the phone four or five times a month and who spend perhaps six occasions a year in the same room.

She is at my apartment maybe twice a year.