“What you did,” I continued, “was prove something to me.

You proved that my suffering was completely irrelevant to you, as long as your own comfort remained undisturbed.

That is what I learned in the moment you shrugged.

Not that you were tired, everyone is tired.

But that when my exhaustion and your convenience came into direct conflict, you chose your convenience without hesitation, and used our children as the excuse.

A marriage cannot survive that discovery unchanged.