The silence that passes for survival
You already know what the silence looks like. The meals still get made. The relatives still visit. Diwali still happens. From the outside, and sometimes even from the inside, the marriage appears to have absorbed the betrayal and moved on. What has actually happened is that both of you agreed, without saying so, to never speak of it again. That agreement is not healing. It is a ceasefire, and ceasefires have expiry dates.
