• Chapter 1: Not if, how
    Sep 19 2017
    On the cusp of her 39th birthday, recently divorced Michelle struggles with a complicated new romance. A drunken tarot card reading returns her to 1999, when she first met The Scientist (soon to be The Husband) and all was filled with promise.
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    20 mins
  • Chapter 2: Why not?
    Sep 20 2017
    The relationship with The Scientist proves harder than expected, and yet he surprise-proposes right when a huge world tragedy occurs. Michelle says yes, starting a chain of compromises as they plan a wedding and get married.
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    22 mins
  • Chapter 3: The feelings I don't feel
    Sep 21 2017
    The first four years of marriage are a happy, love-drunk time until The Husband delivers an ultimatum. Michelle reluctantly (at first) gets pregnant, and everything starts to change in her — physically and mentally.
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    19 mins
  • Chapter 4: Impossible to see
    Sep 22 2017
    Michelle struggles with the isolation of maternity leave and emptiness sets in as she feels less and less like herself. Just as she's about to return to work, there's a surprising event and everything changes again.
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    29 mins
  • Chapter 5: The bomb
    Sep 23 2017
    By the time the baby is four, The Husband has become a stranger in his own home. There are arguments and few answers as to why. One day, Michelle finds a tell-tale umbrella and soon after, she's hit with the bomb called Affair.
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    17 mins
  • Chapter 6: Fallout
    Sep 24 2017
    In the wake of The Bomb, Michelle becomes a shell of her former self, and slowly spirals down, deeper and deeper into grief and straight into the arms of the monster, Loneliness.
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    22 mins
  • Chapter 7: Protection
    Sep 27 2017
    In the first weeks after The Bomb, friends, family, co-workers and strangers show kindness and support, and The Husband has a revelation about kindness too.
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    21 mins
  • Chapter 8: Left and leaving
    Sep 28 2017
    Michelle and The Husband pack up their house together, dismantling 12 years in two months. They move out and into two apartments across the street from one another, committed to raising their daughter together.
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    23 mins