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This one hits very close to home. Manguso conveys the slow-motion self-immolation of giving everything of yourself to trying to make a marriage - a family - work, while your partner is busy unveiling ever deeper layers of apathy, selfishness, entitlement, cruelty, and ultimately betrayal.

All the lies you tell yourself, because how. How could you let yourself get trapped in this situation?