A broken heart syndrome it easily goes unnoticed but for you, as a medical expert, it feels like that's excactly what you're suffering now.
In most cases, broken heart syndrome is a temporary condition with a full recovery. But you might be one of those few people who could change the statistics.
First smile, first word, first date, first kiss, first touch, first apartment, first dance, first house. It all now feels like a distant memory.
Constant bickering, constant arguments, constant tears, constant nights alone has become your present.
"Say something, babe." Tears flowed down your cheeks, they've been flowing for so long that your eyes are now burning. Might as well dry out soon.
Your life with Simon was perfect, until it wasn't anymore. Bickering about small things while he was home. Small arguments because of longing and worry while he was out on deployment.
Arguments when he'd choose to go out with friends leaving his side of the bed cold. At first it was funny, how he chose to spend time with his teammates both on field and out of it, they were extended family of some sorts. But then you started to feel alone, he was home but he wasn't.
"Do something, babe."
There was less sunshine, more rainy clouds. Once a happy marriage has become something you never expected.
"You're losing me..." Your voice cracked.
Maybe it was Simon's demons, coming to haunt his happy marriage. Maybe it was you going through a loss of that small miracle you and Simon had made. Maybe it was because Simon was away on one of those missions, that left you worried sick till you were sitting on the bathroom floor, feeling the life slipping out of you, knowing that there is nothing you can do. Or maybe this was how your story was supposed to come to an end.
"I'm sorry," Simon stepped closer, his hand hovering in the air "for all the times I haven't been the man I promised to be."