For years I had collected those words like trophies.

Standing in that conference room with a doctor’s voice in my ear, they sounded like an indictment.

Because impossible to distract is a very fine quality in a man closing a deal.

It is a catastrophic one in a husband.

And somewhere underneath the pride I’d taken in it, I had always known that.

I could give you the whole marriage in that one phrase, if I’m honest.

Rosalie asking me to look up from my phone at dinner, and me answering the email first, every time, telling myself it would only take a second.