That autumn is, if I am honest and I am trying to be, one of the better stretches of my marriage.

Dr.

Sorokin says that is not a contradiction and that I keep presenting it as one.

She says a man who is being kind in two houses is not dividing a finite quantity of kindness.

He is producing more of it, because he needs more of it, and it is real in both houses, and the fact that it is real is exactly what makes it useless as evidence of anything.

Part Nineteen: The Message