
Echoes of Old Arguments
To say that he’d heard it before was an understatement: he’d heard her say “you never want to do the things I like to do” so many times, he’d started tracking how often she’d say it each week. He kept an inconspicuous tally on the notes section background on his phone and reported a grim satisfaction each time she accused him of not wanting to attend a family gathering or for not arranging dinner out with friends. When he called her on this – bringing up recent instances wher