I lost a marriage that night.

I recovered a self.

It was not, in the end, a bad trade.

Chapter 5 — Go Back and Apologize

My husband, Luca, was away on a weekend fishing trip with his friends, and it was from a lake somewhere that he finally texted me, hours after his mother had put me in a hospital.

Mom said you two had a fight, the first message read. Don’t make this a big deal.

Go back and apologize.