BPOV
"No, there's no place for a 'break'!" I said, "We need to end it all!"
He glared at me.
"What? Don't give me that look!" I said.
"Do you really want to end it all?" He said.
"What do you mean if I really want to end it all?" I said incredulously, "Of course I want to end it all! I have been wanting to end it all for the last seven years! That's fucking what we've been discussing since last few days. I've made up my mind! Yes, of course I want to end it all!"
"Yeah right," He laughed sarcastically.
He laughed!
He fucking laughed?
Like... Was he kidding me?
"Excuse me?" I said, "I don't think this is funny at all."
"Then why the fuck did you kiss me just a few hours back like you've never kissed me before?" He said, "Why were you apologizing to me?"
"Because... Because..." I didn't know how to respond to that. He completely caught me off the guard with that.
"Look... We need to be real!" He said, "I think we need to understand that the definition of 'our issues' has changed significantly in these last few hours. Before you found about that fucking TikTok, you thought I had cheated on you. I thought I had cheated on you! But now... Everything has changed."
"And now it's your turn to ask for the divorce... or a 'break' as you say!" I snapped.
"I know I said that... But I'm pretty sure I'd have figured it out a few hours later that that's not what I want... Because believe me! That's not really what I want!" I said.
I stared at him.
"So what you're saying is, I need to keep calm when you're having mood swings!" I said.
"Well, I've been tolerating your mood swings since the last seven years!" He snapped, "You need to understand that it's not even a day since I got one of the biggest shocks of my life! I swear... If our roles were reversed and some man had stripped you and he... Okay, it's making me angry even just talking about it... But what I'm trying to say is, just because I'm a man, you expect me to just... forget and move on in a few hours! You need to give me some time to digest this!"
"Now don't you go there! Don't create new points just for the sake of arguing!" I shook my head, "I know it's difficult for you. I know you're angry and shocked and hurt... You said you wanted some space and I gave you that..." I said, "But then you said... you need a break!"
"So what?" He said.
"What do you mean by 'so what'?" I asked incredulously.
"So what if I said that? You've said a million times that you want to end marriage and leave. Why can't I say that? Is it like a woman's right or something?" He said.
Women's rights?
"Edward... You're just... irritating me right now!" I said.
"Sure," he said, "Now tell me for one last time. Do you really want to end this marriage?"
I wanted to say so many things... Like, why the hell was he showing me so much attitude!
Why wasn't he trying to understand my side?
He had to understand that because of his mistake, now the girls knew that we had some issues!
But then I thought maybe all this wasn't really required!
Just a 'No' would do!
"No." I said.
"Good." He said, "And same here."
Okay?
"Now sit down. We need to talk." He said.
"Can you please stop talking to me like this?" I said with irritation, "I am not a kid."
"Yes, you are." he said, "We both are."