Dear Mia

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She has explained the boundary so many times that the explanation has become the place where the boundary dies.

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The guest room stopped being a room and became a decision nobody wants to admit was made.

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The marriage started with a microphone, a laugh, and one sentence she has replayed for three years.

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Every emergency arrives with his name on it and her calendar underneath it.

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Her mother says it will only take five minutes, and somehow the whole evening disappears.

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By December she has visited everyone who raised them and lost the family they are trying to become.

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A listener is the only one who holds the entire family calendar in her head -- every appointment, form, and shoe size -- while her husband is a genuinely good, willing dad. Why does being willing to help not equal sharing the load?

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She can tell where she ranks by the chair they always give her at the table.

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A listener and her husband keep having their most serious conversations after midnight, once the kids are finally down -- and every one of them turns into a disaster. Why does exhaustion turn ordinary questions into referendums on the whole marriage?

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She did not get married to become the manager of a laminated list on the fridge.

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