Sara's Dilemma by Erica Michaels

Author:Erica Michaels [Michaels, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-24T18:30:00+00:00

Sara Versus Raymond

For Sara, it seemed to happen suddenly — both her husband’s distance and her son becoming adolescent. It seemed one month her son had sunshine in his eyes and said “I love you” every night before bed, just as he always had since he learned how to talk. Then, around 13, he became cold, only interested in texting his friends and watching YouTube videos. As for Sara’s husband, Raymond, it seemed one day they were honeymooning and in love, sharing all the feelings of their heart, and then some time into her busy schedule, she noticed that they barely spoke at all. Sara knows it must have happened gradually — teenage hormones don’t set in overnight, and distant husbands don’t lose interest after a singular 18-hour shift, but it felt that way. It seemed as soon as Sara noticed these changes in her life, it was too late to change them, and no matter how she reached out with warmth to Rocco or Raymond, she was met with coldness, and her job had her away so much, she felt exhausted most of the time anyway.

It was a year ago that Sara started sleeping in the guest room. It wasn’t because of an explosive argument — Raymond and she didn’t argue with any malice. More so, one day Raymond said he couldn’t fall back asleep after Sara came in so late at night from work, and why doesn’t she sleep in the guest room. Sara didn’t argue. It would seem like a practical negotiation, and maybe in some marriages wouldn’t have even been a sign of an unhealthy relationship, but Sara knows that there is much more unspoken in the silence, and she’s sure Raymond knows it too. Neither of them is willing to break the silence first, though.

When Sara comes home Thursday night, around 11pm, she feels surreal, almost like she is living in the dream of someone else’s life. She floats through the door to their small home in Flagstaff, murmurs some greeting to her husband who is watching late night television on the couch, gets some update about Rocco’s sickness, floats to the bedroom to take Rocco’s temperature, and tries to feed him medicine. Sometime in the night, she helps clean up Rocco’s vomit, then goes back to bed in the guest room.

By the time she blinks open her weary eyes and enters the kitchen the next morning, Raymond and Rocco have already eaten breakfast and are busy with their respective tasks — Raymond, probably answering work emails and Rocco on his phone. Clearly feeling less sick, she thinks of Rocco. Stifling a yawn, Sara glances at her phone, thinking she will just be checking the time, but instead finding a notification from Erik. She shuts the screen quickly, glancing around as if someone had been looking over her shoulder.

Please, she thinks to herself, it’s not as if you’re having some affair.

“How are things in Flagstaff?” the message reads.

Sara looks up from her phone and looks

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