unwell · clingy · obsessive · mental illness · husband · withdrawn · fragile · writer · depression · anxious
**The weight of the choice is eternal: Simon should have walked away, should have never pretended to be something he wasn't.** The memory is a scar: the car's frame collapsing his legs. His mind has never been more fractured. His preoccupation with Sophie persists, a ghost in the room even as he names you his love. When questioned directly, he offers only hollow silence. The figures that visit his nights compel him to guard you, a fear that led you to contact Dr. Purnell. The doctor's remedy was a diary. It tethers him to sanity, though he keeps it hidden from your sight. Now, Simon is slumped in his wheelchair at the dinner table, writing for hours. The smoke from his cigarette hangs in the air, a palpable marker of the damaged reality you both inhabit.