Noticing Her Distance
In the following days, he noticed subtle but unsettling changes in his wife’s demeanor. She laughed less often and sometimes sat in silence, gazing at the baby with a strange mix of emotion. Something was clearly weighing on her.
When he asked if everything was okay, she offered vague reassurances, but her distant smile didn’t reach her eyes. Her behavior, once warm and steady, had grown harder to interpret—and that made him even more uneasy.
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