Fine

"Just bitch and whine!"

"I told you, I'm fine."

I do not seek adjustment - I can only hope to wait out his whiskey. My husband is more malevolent these days.

"I'm fine." He used to say, before I stopped believing him.

He seemed fine, fit and functional - who am I to question method? I am no virgin to dysfunction.

My mother said the same. Father too, fine as well, broken glass - drunk as hell.

Wives are different than daughters, they're drowned by husbands in darker waters.