The Wife He Took For Granted
"I think that might be the actual difference. Not that the plans are better. That we're making them together, out loud, instead of assuming the other person will simply adapt."
Elena looked at the two documents spread between them, her leave plan and his revised timeline, both genuinely separate, both shaped around the same coming reality. "We should probably pick a due date on the calendar we actually protect," she said. "Not just check it against everything else. Build the whole spring around it."
"I'd like that," Adrian said, already reaching for his own calendar. "I think that's the next thing we actually need to figure out. Not everything at once. Just th