As spring blossomed into summer, Emily hoped to spend more time with her boyfriend, but all he seemed to think about was work.

Merging their two companies had done the trick. The financial crisis was mostly behind him, but he couldn’t relax. He was up at all hours, and then wake up at six in the morning and head to work again, his handsome face marred by under-eye puffiness.

This had to stop.

When they had dinner, one of the few times of the day when ...