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< p > always three.

< p > always the same cup, always the same routine.

< p > for forty years.

< p > I looked at her and felt empty.

< p > not love. Not anger. Not even regret.

< p > only void.

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< P >There was no size & oacute; w. There was no tenderness. There was no laughter.

< p > It was only habit.

< p > life side by side. Not together.

< p > — We have to talk — I said quietly.

< p > my wife looked at me.

< p > — What's going on ?

< p > I sighed.

< p > — I want divorce.

< p > A moment of silence.

< p > teaspoon stopped in a cup.

< p > — I listen ?

< p > did not shout.

< p > did not throw anything at me, as it happens in movies.

< p > looked at me for a long time.

< p > — After forty years ?

< p > — Yes

< p > — Why ?

< p > I left my eyes.

< p > — Because I can't do it any longer.

< p > — You can't like ?

< p > — Live next to you.

< p > I don't know what I expected.

< p > maybe he will cry.

< p > maybe that he will beg me to stay.

< p > but she just sat and looked.

< p > and then she said something that shook me more than anything else.

< p > — And you think I don't feel the same ?

< p > I looked at her stunned.

< p > — What do you mean ?

< p > smiled sadly.

< p > — That maybe we should do it a long time ago.

< p > I felt something in me.

< p > — Why nothing m & oacute; you wiped ?

< p > — Because I thought that this is how life looks like.

< p > that day we decided.

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Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116