Nothing more.
Sometimes I would sit alone at the table, staring at the untouched food, asking myself:
Is this marriage… or am I just a guest who overstayed?
Years passed like that.
I tried harder. Loved more. Spoke softer.
But love cannot grow in emptiness.
One evening, he came home with a face I couldn’t read.
No anger. No sadness. Just… nothing.
He sat across from me and placed a document on the table.
“Sign,” he said coldly. “I don’t want to waste time anymore.”