By SWG
“Dad, why is Mom strange again?” My six-year-old son doesn’t mince words.
My 11-year-old daughter asks sympathetically, “Dad, is Mom mad at you
again?”
They are getting accustomed to my wife’s cyclical mental instability, but it
still hurts every time. You would think that after thirteen years it would
get easier, but it doesn’t. My wife lives half of her life in a world that
has no basis in reality. She “knows” that I have women on the side. She
seethes with anger. The worst part is, none of it is true. It’s all in her
head.
Very interesting how you were able to give us a nice taste of four characters in such a short story; well done.
So real. I know a woman just like that. She did a lot better after she got off psych meds.