i heard her phone say, 'is your ex being difficult again?' while i was making dinner. i thought i'd misheard. she looked horrified and quickly lowered the volume
apparently she'd told her chatbot that our marriage was over during an argument three months earlier. she never updated the story, and the assistant had been treating me as the previous relationship ever since
i asked why the chatbot knew a version of our lives that i hadn't agreed was real. she said she'd been venting and didn't think it mattered. i said it mattered to hear myself demoted to ex-husband beside the potatoes
we talked about the state of our marriage without anyone consulting a screen. i don't know where we'll land. i do know that if i'm going to be divorced, i would prefer to hear it from my wife first