you said.”
He rubbed his forehead.
“I was talking to the guys. Men say things when they’re together. You weren’t supposed to hear it.”
“So you didn’t mean it?”
He hesitated.
That hesitation told me more than a dozen apologies could have.
“Margaret, you know how stressful things have been. I’ve been thinking about my life, about getting older, about what I want for the future.”
“And you decided I was useless?”
“I didn’t say that.”
I held his gaze.
“You said I had accomplished nothing. You said I was
