Meagan Church

The Mad Wife 

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Babies are blessings, they say. But what often goes unsaid is that blessings aren’t always what we expect. And sometimes when we focus on the light they bring, we miss the shadows that lurk behind.

 “What if you don’t feel like doing laundry on a Tuesday?”

“Feel like it?” She squinted as if she had never considered that possibility, before sighing at my inexperience. Ineptitude. Indolence. “The point is so you don’t have to think about it. You just do it.”

“Is this what you do for fun all day? [...] Watch people out your window?”

“How else are we supposed to entertain ourselves?”

Sometimes the memories we keep are the ones we’d rather forget. But they have a way of finding us in the night, whispering along the wind so we remember.

Sometimes routine offers certainty, action without having to give thought, a practice that doesn’t require questioning. Sometimes it offers comfort. Sometimes when we lose those routines, we lose ourselves.

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