My husband used to lock himself in the bathroom every morning at 4 a.m. for thirty-five years. And the night I finally looked through the keyhole, I understood why he always whispered, “I’m doing this to protect you.”

“If you ask me one more time what I do in that bathroom at four in the morning, I swear I’ll leave this house.”

That was what my husband said to me after thirty-five years of marriage. Marriage
My name is Eleanor Mitchell. I am seventy-eight years old, and for most of my life, I slept beside a man I …