Charlie Forde – I Love My Wife – Missax May 2026

The clock ticks to 6:00 AM. He makes the coffee anyway. Some habits are just elegantly disguised cowardice. End of piece.

He rolls over to look at her. His wife.

Charlie’s sin isn’t infidelity. It’s distance. He loves his wife the way a man loves a photograph—preserved, admired, untouchable. But photographs don’t need to be loved back. Wives do. charlie forde – i love my wife – missax

Because love isn’t the opposite of betrayal. The opposite of betrayal is presence. And Charlie Forde has been absent for years, standing right in front of her. The clock ticks to 6:00 AM

She sees him. That’s the cruel joke. She sees the version of Charlie who forgot her birthday two years ago, who works late by choice not necessity, who stopped looking at her like she was the answer and started looking at her like she was a question he was tired of trying to solve. End of piece