Chapter 83

I have survived a marriage.

I know how to read a room for danger. I know how to make my voice smooth when it wants to shake. I know how to agree without agreeing. I know how to be present and absent at the time. I know how to eat dinner in silence and make that silence look like contentment. I know how to sleep on the edge of a bed and not take up space. I know how to not make sounds that might co