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Chapter 3
Hermione hated failure.
It stung her to realize that it was probably her pride that kept her trying all these years.
This was pretty much all her fault. She knew that they were not a good match. She was supposed to be the smart one.
She shouldn't have settled.
Affections between her and Ron were warm, but never passionate.
She believed at the time that it was enough. Wrongly believed it would be enough for her, and apparently wrongly believed it was enough for him.
Ron probably didn't even know why he was so unhappy with his wife.
But she knew.
She would never be able to be the simpering, fawning, panting-over-his-every-word kind of wife. That was what Ron needed.
She could do that, and would probably be happy to do it, if it were not for one thing:
She was not in love with Ron.
She never was.