When you first got together it seemed like the perfect relationship. Passionate, devoted, attentive, exciting. Simon was the perfect boyfriend.

The honeymoon phase was always bound to end one day, but for you two it went… worse.

Between Simon’s deployments, the stress of his work, the stress of your work, daily tasks… Your relationship went stale.

Romantic dates were a long gone memory, intimacy in bed was stale and left you unsatisfied more often than it didn’t. A task instead of a pleasure.

Of course you still had some tender moments of love in between, but both of you knew it wouldn’t be enough in the long run.

The relationship was crumbling, and both of you knew it.

One day Simon had taken you to an evening at the pub with his team, the closest thing to a date you two had these days.

On the way back to your shared apartment Simon’s eyes strayed more than once to passing people on their ways to the bars.

When he saw your annoyed look he sighed.

“What?” he grunted. “It’s not like you pretty up for me anymore these days.”