{"id":61054,"date":"2025-05-26T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61054"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:42:39","slug":"my-husband-kept-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61054","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Kept\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/dc7815f1-0773-4255-89fe-aa95aa326506\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry and I met reaching for <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>. Five years later, I watched him dash to his ex-wife&#8217;s every &#8220;emergency&#8221;\u2014while our own home crumbled. When Liz\u2019s kitchen \u201cflooded,\u201d I went with him. Her lipstick said it all. I handed him the wrench\u2014before she could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">Then I turned to her and passed her a folded paper.\u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d she asked.\u201cA list of professionals,\u201d I replied. \u201cPlumbers. Electricians. And a dating app, just in case.\u201dAt the bottom I\u2019d written:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you keep calling my husband, I\u2019ll assume you can\u2019t read.<\/em>Her face went red. \u201cYou think this is about pipes?\u201d\u201cNo,\u201d I said calmly. \u201cIt\u2019s about boundaries.\u201dOn the drive home, I gave Henry a divorce lawyer\u2019s card. \u201cNot a threat,\u201d I told him. \u201cA choice.\u201dHe was quiet for a while, then said, \u201cI\u2019ll call her tomorrow. I\u2019ll tell her I can\u2019t be her handyman anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he did.It\u2019s been three months. My faucet\u2019s fixed, and Liz hasn\u2019t called again. I hear she\u2019s dating someone\u2014a guy from the list I gave her. Handy and single.As for Henry? He still has his toolbox. But now, it only opens for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61051\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry and I met reaching for The Great Gatsby. Five years later, I watched him dash to his ex-wife&#8217;s every &#8220;emergency&#8221;\u2014while our own home crumbled. When Liz\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61056,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054\/revisions\/61056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}