Chapter 5
The Echo
Looking back, what has stayed with you? Did it change anything about you, your life, or the way you see things today?
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. This man is crazy about me, but he doesn’t know it. From time to time, I have to remind him that I love him, but that there is someone I love more than him, and only his happiness counts. No mystery: we’re still together. He’s the head of the family, but I’m the one he loves. So to be happy, he has to make me happy. Year after year, I have to put up with his high level of immaturity, but deep down, I think it’s part of the game. Because in my situation, every time I prove to him that I can leave him for good, things change. The only thing is, his game is starting to exhaust me, and us. Why do I need to cry to make him change? Why do I need to threaten to leave him to get him to improve? And the worst part is that he loves me. He loves me with a strong, incredible love. And just as the idea of seeing me with another man is unbearable to him, imagining that his new girl would get a smooth life because I did all the work is what makes me stay. It makes me believe we are both truly crazy in love. No pun intended.
