The Lonely Marriage

Photo by Tijs van Leur on Unsplash

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. — David Levithan

I could blame our schedules. You work nights, I work days. Maybe our schedules are the reason I feel this way, this giant hole in the center of my body. I’m trying to stuff it full of anything. Pets, exercise, TikTok; anything to make the hole just a tiny bit smaller. It’s still there, a giant, gaping maw…