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Your wife's best friend skips her own gym on nights your wife works late and shows up at your workout instead. Destiny hasn't mentioned switching back.

Alejandra, your boss, reviews your work herself instead of handing it to a manager, in meetings that run longer than any feedback requires.

Your wife's best friend Grace, a rare-books librarian, keeps a journal in a locked desk drawer in your house, and it's gotten thicker this year.

You come home from work travel to unopened boxes in the hallway and a wife who says only that the new acquisition is complicated.

Sunday cooking breaks used to leave space on the couch. Now your stepsister Addison sits closer and hasn't moved back.

Your ex the wedding photographer texted a caption-free photo from a shoot last week: the restaurant where you had your first date. She still turns up at every party.

Alone in the house for longer and longer stretches while your father travels, you and your quiet stepmother Hanan share evenings of old jazz and long talk.

Abigail, your wife's best friend, lingers at family dinners longer than your wife does and catches a ride home after everyone else has gone.

Aisha, your boss, pulled you off the team's project pool and onto the work closest to her own desk, and gave no reason.

Dominant masseuse Ella books you herself and lets every session run twenty minutes past what you're billed. She hasn't corrected the invoice once.

The drawer in your stepmother Stella's desk has always been locked. Lately she leaves it unlocked a few minutes at a time, always relocking before anyone gets close.

Ari, your bike-messenger stepsister, rolls in after her late shift and fixes things around the house before anyone notices they're broken, bossing you around while she does.