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relationship was like being in the wilderness without Jesus.      
    ‘Ed, we need to talk’ said Jenny.
    ‘I don’t want to talk about George’.
    ‘Not about him. I want to talk about us. I want to talk about the state of our marriage, Ed’.
    Ed looked up to the heavens. ‘Ah, not this again. Every morning I get up at four o’clock to go and earn a crust and every evening I have this crap to deal with in one form or another and I’m getting just a little bit sick and tired of it. Am I not under enough pressure? I really could do without this’.
    ‘Ed, are you happy to carry on like this for the rest of our lives?’
    ‘Sounds like you’re not’ he answered.
    ‘Well can you blame me? Ed, we’re old before our time’
    ‘Sorry. I didn’t realize I’d screwed your life up to that extent’.
    ‘Oh don’t be like that’.
    ‘Like what? You’re the one who’s saying how unhappy you are’.
    ‘Only because I’m the only one who’s got the guts to face up to anything!’
    ‘Well don’t mince your words to save my feelings. I wouldn’t want you to do that’.
    ‘We need to sort ourselves out, Ed’ said Jenny. ‘I’m exhausted with it all’.
    ‘Well won’t this make for a happy family atmosphere at Gabby’s wedding? We get to trash the happiest day of her life by telling her that her parents are filing for divorce’.
    ‘Was it the happiest day of your life when we got married, Ed?’
    ‘What kind of a bloody question is that?’
    ‘One that I need an answer to!’
    ‘We had to get married’ said Ed, flatly. ‘You were pregnant with our Gabby’.
    ‘Oh well he finally speaks the truth!’
    ‘Jenny, I didn’t mean what you think I meant’.
    ‘Then what did you mean? Oh don’t bother because I’m not interested anymore’.
    ‘So divorce is what you want?’
    ‘Yes, no, I don’t know. Let’s eat and we can talk later’.   
    Dinner was eaten in almost complete silence except for the sound of heavy rain falling outside. Ed was thinking about George and the police enquiry that had opened up. He opened a bottle of red wine. Jenny had one glass and Ed drank the rest. Once he’d finished playing about with his food he stood up and took his plate over to the sink.
    ‘Not taking mine as well then?’ Jenny asked irritably. Ed had a habit of clearing away his own dishes and leaving hers. It drove her crazy.
    ‘I didn’t know … I didn’t know if you’d finished or not’.
    ‘Try asking me next time!’ she snapped. ‘It’s called conversation’.
    Ed leaned forward against the kitchen sink. ‘Look, I’m sorry’.
    ‘You’re sorry?’ Jenny snarled. ‘Don’t bloody well insult me’.
    ‘Well what do you expect me to say?’
    ‘Something that might make me believe in you, Ed’ said Jenny. ‘Something that might make me believe in this sham of a marriage’.
    ‘It’s not a sham!’
    ‘Try and say that from where I’m standing! We haven’t done anything but argue for months. You never touch me or come anywhere near me and when we do have sex you’re so unenthusiastic I feel like I’m raping you’.
    ‘Don’t be so bloody ridiculous’.
    ‘I’m only forty-one, Ed. So are you. We’re both young enough to start again’.
    ‘You don’t mess around when there’s a husband to be kicked in the bollocks’.
    ‘Don’t you even try and make this my fault! I’ve done everything I can and more to hold this marriage together’.
    ‘I don’t know what to say, Jenny’.
    ‘I loved you, Ed’ Jenny declared tearfully. ‘I loved you with everything I had and I’ve paid a high price for it’.
    ‘What about Gabby?’
    ‘And the wedding we can’t pay for? I’ll be ringing your mother about that’.
    ‘You will not ring my mother!’
    ‘Ed, your mother is the only one in this family who can pay for Gabby’s wedding and I’m ringing her first thing in the morning’.
    ‘If you do it really will be the end of us’.
    ‘There is no us, Ed. I feel sorry for