Even the most perfect relationship can change drastically overnight.

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Hard to imagine life without her. When the hell did everything start to unravel?

Now he sat alone in the shell of their apartment, baseball game on the tv playing for no one, nursing his second Dewars. Once upon a time this place was alive with people enjoying one of their famous dinner parties. When he closed his eyes he could hear their friends discussing politics, movies, the crazy tenants on the 2nd floor….and the sound of her spirited laugh when someone told a dirty joke.

They were the perfect couple, the envy of all their friends. Theirs was an easy, comfortable marriage – viewing a gallery in SoHo, cycling through Central Park, steamy showers after Saturday morning lovemaking. They were in sync in their choices of restaurants, paint colors and the biggest decision of all…neither one wanted kids.

He sat there, head in hands while a thousand thoughts went through his mind. When did he begin having second thoughts? Was it the weekend in Maine spent visiting his sister after the birth of her first baby? Was it watching the kids in the playground across the street? All he could remember was the night he whispered in her ear that he wanted to have a baby.

She was blindsided. What? No! He was just named partner at Goldman Sachs. She was food editor for Connoisseur magazine. Life is perfect. They had an agreement, dammit! Would she just consider thinking about it? No! How could he spring this on her now?

Weeks, months went by. She remained adamant, distant. Then one day he came home after work and she was gone.

Here he sat, alone with his Dewars, ballgame long over, fingering his wedding band, staring at divorce papers.

It couldn’t have happened to a more perfect couple.

By Nancy Richy

From: United States

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