I had, in his absence, rebuilt the entire architecture of our household on terms that did not depend on him at all.

And he was beginning, at last, to grasp the scale of what he had walked back into.

Chapter 11 — Twenty-Four Hours Without a Paycheck

“Are you insane?” Julian roared, dropping his tackle box onto the floor with a crash that would have woken the babies had they not been sleeping soundly two rooms away, cared for.

“You can’t just spend our savings because you felt overwhelmed for a few days!

I go to work every single morning to provide for this family!