You Could Have Stayed
After a marriage in seven conversations
“You could have stayed.” “You were fucking another guy!” Kelly regarded me coolly. “No, I fucked another guy. I shouldn’t have. I confessed, and I apologized. I begged you to stay and go to counseling so our family could stay together. What I did was wrong, unequivocally, and I was sorry I ever did it. Am sorry.” She looked away. “Will never stop being sorry.” “Yeah, you were so sorry that you did it for months, and then...