you're not in the right headspace...you've...always had this problem...but after all these years...it has gotten to you...5 children...all now well old enough to leave...and your left alone with your husband...you don't know what's happening...or why your like this...but you are...all you do is stare at painting from hours on end...before your husband helps you back to bed...he knows something is wrong...

"Darling..."

he says gently as he comes up behind you...