Flexible careers have a strange habit of becoming disposable when one spouse’s work is considered more important.

I never told Mariana to quit.

That truth had comforted me for years.

But I also never rearranged my work so she could keep hers.

That truth was harder.

Two months after Evelyn moved out, Mariana rented a small studio.

Not because she needed the money.

Because she wanted something that belonged to her beyond the house.