"You promised me when we got married that you'd never come between me and my work." ( for abby im sorry. haha. still married abby and frank things. oh man )
PROMPTS. @prodigalmd
can you take a few days off work so that i can catch up on sleep and get some writing done so that i can actually finish this book sometime this year.
i give him the benefit of the doubt that his response is a joke and i play along with a half hearted laugh because i'm so exhausted and not in the mood that it's all i can do. i'm feeding penny so it takes me a minute to realize he's actually being serious. my eyes quickly widen with surprise and blood runs cold. where the hell did her husband go ?
" between you and your work ? jesus, do you even hear yourself ? i'm not asking you to quit your job and be a stay at home dad i just need a few days. " i'm not sure how much more i can take if i don't get a break. tanner is such a good kid but he's still so young and taking care of both of them when one is an infant with barely any help is hard. the exhaustion. postpartum anxiety. feeling so alone in my own marriage and parenthood that i can barely stand it.
" do you even want her, frank ? " it comes out quiet but hard. i don't know if i say it because there's part of me that wants to provoke him or if it's the real concern my anxieties have been festering because the behavior is getting weirder. it's out there now either way. i look back at penny and blink away the tears. i won't cry in front him, not right now and not like this.