They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

convinced I would be seasick.” He paused. “I wasn’t. Though I was thoroughly unsettled when we came home and everything was still.”

I tried to imagine him younger, standing uncertainly on a ship’s deck, his formidable posture at war with the sway of the ocean beneath him.

“You went anyway,” I said.

“Of course,” he said simply. “You don’t marry an adventurous continue reading …