There was no conversation... no sex... and before I knew it, we were no longer even sleeping in the same bed, and our relationship had grown cold. I wanted to shorten the distance even just a little bit... but there was no way that wish would come true, and we lived as a married couple as if we were living together. One day, while attending a class reunion for a change of pace, she reunited with her ex-boyfriend who had been transferred overseas for the first time in a while. She pretended to be calm, but she drank too much alcohol.