I loved it when he left home

I remember lying in my bed awake at night on Sundays, and I’d hear him take a bath around 20:00. I knew this meant he would be going to the pub. It made me so happy to know he would be leaving the house for the evening, even though it hardly made a difference to me since I was supposed to be asleep. It was so nice to have him away from us. I knew things would be automatically calmer, less stress…