ALL ABOUT HUMAN NATURE

  I uploaded a fifteen-second video on Instagram showing a simple office get-together, completely unaware that I was actively detonating my own marriage. I thought I looked pretty good in the clip. Greg was holding a plastic cup of warm soda, laughing at something stupid, and I threw my arm around his shoulder to capture the peak of our corporate camaraderie. Ten minutes later, while I was sitting on the couch scrolling through my feed like a man completely immune to the consequences of his own actions, a single comment popped up under the post. It was from my wife, Mary. Just one word. Hmm. That single, three-letter exclamation point of doom hit me harder than a physical blow. My chest tightened, and my brain instantly stopped functioning. I tapped the video again, squinted at my own phone screen, and finally saw what my oblivious, self-centered eyes had completely missed in the excitement of posting. Josephine. She was standing right behind me. But she wasn't just standing there....