Frederick Bachman. Anxious people (№ 437132)

Everyone does stupid things out of love. For example, they get married. Have children, live a happy family life. At least they pretend to be happy. Perhaps their life is not so happy, but quite decent. Yes, they have a real decent marriage. A person cannot be continuously happy. There is no time for this. The main thing is to get through the day. You may have had those days too. And perhaps you had to go through so many of these days that one fine morning you looked around and suddenly realized how lonely you were, and found that the person with whom you lived all this time had long since turned off your common path.