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she told her therapist about her park pal, and how he immediately knew she wanted to be with her family when she admitted to the wish for home.
“i don’t get it,” she said. “my coworkers understand, this old man from the park understands—relative strangers to me!—and yet my own husband can’t see where my heart is.”
when she revealed being homesick to him recently, after being pressed to explain her emotional state, he asked if her mother had relayed information about her sisters or her father, convinced that some news had befallen the family and prompted the feeling, not realizing his wife lived in a state of longing.
“i mean, given the circumstances, what person wouldn’t want to be with their family?” she cried to her therapist.
“he wouldn’t,” the therapist responded. “he couldn’t be there when his mother died.”
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