Invisible to her Husband
“Funny how he’s younger than your affair starting date.”
Nicholas stiffened. “Hold on. You really want me to leave my home? My children?” When Fatima didn’t respond, didn’t reassure him, didn’t soften, he finally dropped the nice act. “How selfish can you be?”
“I’m selfish?”
“Yes! It’s always your work this, your work that,” he snapped. “Did you ever think maybe my cheating had something to do with how unavailable you were? Or how you sometimes came home smelling like medicine?”
Men and their excuses. Always finding a way to make it your fault when they cheat. If it wasn’t that you were unavailable, it was that you were too available, too committed, too present, too much.