Lauren realizes right then that the prospect of being single—of recent events leading to a divorce and her being a single mother with child support checks and the like—scares her to death. Dating itself is...

Sean looks up at her, and he wants to explain it all to her. Explain what it’s like to be rubbed so raw, to have your emotional threshold exceeded day after day, your psyche beaten...

For just a second, Lauren wonders if she’s going insane. But insane people don’t think they’re insane, everybody knows that. But…since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn’t that mean an insane person could...