‘But you heard her, Matthew.

She thought marriage meant I would need her less.’ He said he’d meant to help her become independent.

We circled the same disagreement several times.

Finally I asked one question: ‘When she told you she was afraid of losing our Saturday mornings, why didn’t you tell me?’ There was a long silence.

‘I thought you’d side with her,’ he said.

It was the most revealing sentence of the conversation.