The Wife's Reckoning
I smiled faintly, shaking my head as I rinsed it out, then put the kettle on for chamomile tea—my usual, time-tested cure for sleepless nights and overactive minds.
I sat down at the expansive dining room table with my laptop, fully intending to answer a backlog of hospital administration emails to tire my eyes out. But almost without a conscious thought guiding my fingers, I navigated to our banking portal instead.
Instinct. Nothing more.
Twenty years of shared history had turned our finances into a predictable, boring routine of mortgage payments, tuition savings, and diversified investments. Marcus handled his creative agency accounts while I managed the vast majority of our day-to-day ho