she ended up marrying a firefighter. Eventually, she threw everything he owned out on the lawn and burned the things he cared about the most. She burned each item methodically, carefully containing the flames from the flourishing rose bushes and tomato plants. She burned his shirts first. The trading cards he kept between plastic in pristine conditon. The couch he used to eat his dinner on in lieu of a dining table.
marriage doesn’t change people, despite popular belief. it entrenches them, validates them, enables them. and there are many ways to hurt someone in a marriage.
Nihilistic Porcupine 