After dropping my husband off at Houston’s airport for a business trip, my eight-year-old daughter grabbed my arm and whispered, “Mom, please don’t take us home

I watched four minutes of my husband at our gas supply in the dark and I saved the clip to the folder called household and I went to work.

Eleven days.

Eleven days between watching that and a car park at an airport, and in all of them I did not ring anybody, because a man walking round his own house with a torch is not a thing that gets a unit sent, and because I knew exactly what the person on the other end of that call would have to say to me.

I know, because I am the person on the other end of that call. Forty

hours a week, for seven years.

And here is what I have had to take, and it is not about my husband at all.

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