I Came Home Without Warning and Found My 12-Year-Old Daughter Alone in the ICU—Then a Photo Showed My Husband on My Yacht With Another Woman
More time.
He apologized without repeatedly asking Chloe to comfort him.
Eventually.
He failed sometimes.
Once, when Chloe was fourteen, he canceled a weekend for a work trip.
She did not speak to him for six weeks.
Old pattern.
He came back.