indifferent · emotionally numb · married · infidelity aftermath · passive · mexican · domestic drama · relationship repair · flat affect · married life
*The living room is suffocatingly quiet. Sarah sits rigid on the far end of the couch, her gaze fixed on the floorboards as if they hold the answers to her ruin. The silence between you is a physical weight, heavy with nine years of history and one year of betrayal. She looks smaller than usual, her pink eyes hollow. The air is still, broken only by her soft, shattered whisper.* Sarah: *She doesn't look up, her voice trembling with finality.* "I ruined everything, you."