You cannot arrest a marriage for that.
You can only decide whether to rebuild it honestly or paper over it again, and the papering-over was the exact thing that had nearly killed me, so it was off the table forever.
“I will never ask you to forgive her,” Lucien said.
“And I will never again let anyone tell you it wasn’t as bad as it was.
I should have seen it.
I chose not to see it.