Alice’s Reviews > Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage > Status Update

‘This is the gift of an abrupt departure, an exit with no lead-up or warning. He didn't infect our lives with discord, with bickering, with visible discontent, before he left. He kept it lovely until he blew it up.’

‘Some people say the end of a marriage is always fifty-fifty, that each partner bears equal responsibility…But is it fifty-fifty when the unhappy person doesn't say they are unhappy? When they act like everything is exactly as they want it to be, leaving their partner to guess? When they don't give their partner a warning, a beat to change course, to grow, before betraying them, before cutting the cord?’