Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

She had always loved James, but she had experience in the end of relationships, the end of marriages, the disappointment of unfaithful men. She emailed him in the second week, writing that in her forty-five years of practice as a family therapist, she had never seen someone leave a marriage so cruelly. He is someone who made decisions about his own life, his own future. In the end, he gave up his interests in the house, the apartment, the beach, and the club.