“Give me a month. If you still feel this way after those four weeks, we will divorce and return to it as it was. Quiet, quick and easy. All that matters to me is that I get to be with you, even if that takes marriage off the table forever.” He still doesn’t look back at me, a tinge of hostility building in the air around him as he gets to his feet and clarifies that we aren’t going to cosy up in bed. I can feel it coming down on me heavily.

Alexi has his own orbit sometimes, ...