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- Authors: Pamela M. Kelley
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How do you know when a marriage is truly over?
Jessica Coleman stared out her kitchen window as she sipped her morning
coffee and half listened to her best friend, Alison Page, tell her about the
amazing dinner she’d had the night before at the Impudent Oyster. She and
Alison had been best friends since they were children living in Chatham,
Massachusetts, and even though they’d lived a thousand miles apart for many
years, they still spoke by phone at least once a week, usually early in the
morning.
“We had the oysters Rockefeller, which had lobster, too, and a creamy
spinach sauce. You would have loved it.”
It was their favorite restaurant in Chatham, the small Cape Cod village
where they’d both grown up. Alison had never left, while Jessica had moved
to Charleston, South Carolina, many years ago, after graduating from law
school, and marrying Parker.
“Jess, you still there?” Alison had stopped talking and Jessica hadn’t even
noticed. She felt the beginnings of a stress headache, brought on by thinking
about the best time to have an uncomfortable conversation with her husband.
Something they’d both been avoiding.
“Sorry, I’ve been miles away. A lot on my mind. Nothing new, just
wondering what to do about Parker.”
“No gold stars lately, I take it?”
Jess laughed. “That’s an understatement.” She’d once joked to Alison that
she should put a gold star on the calendar for the rare occasions that she and
Parker had sex. By her calculations it was almost a year now. It just wasn’t a
priority anymore, for either of them. They’d met during her junior year at
Charleston College, and she’d never really been serious with anyone else. He
hadn’t, either. After graduating from law school and getting married, both
took jobs at Parker’s father’s firm in Charleston. They’d settled in Mount
Pleasant, one of the area’s nicest neighborhoods, and three years later had
one daughter, Caitlin, who recently turned thirty.
“I’m sorry. Have you talked to him about it? Do you want to try to save
the marriage?”
Jess wasn’t sure there was anything left to save. She and Parker had been
madly in love, many years ago. They both worked long hours and it seemed
like the only thing they had in common anymore was work.
“It’s like we’re roommates. It’s been like that for a few years, we’ve really
sort of drifted apart. And I feel like something has shifted in the past few
months. Just a funny feeling that I have.”
“You think he might be having an affair?” Alison sounded surprised, and
Jess didn’t blame her. Parker was the least likely person to have an affair. He
worked long hours and they worked together. She knew his schedule and
didn’t see how it was possible. But still, the feeling wouldn’t go away.
“I don’t know. Maybe not. Maybe we’ve just both come to realize this
isn’t working anymore. Something just feels different.”
“You need to talk to him.”
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