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After twenty years of marriage, I called my husband as usual, reminding him to take his medicine while he worked overtime. He grew impatient. "Enough already. I'm busy. Stop nagging me about such a small thing." "You know," he added, "couples really need some distance. It's the only way to keep things fresh." He started creating that distance, not letting me know his whereabouts, refusing to let me see his phone. Every day, he'd lecture me about giving him enough personal space. Two years later, I caught him and his mistress in a hotel room. That was when he said, "You're the one who pulled away. We've become strangers now, with nothing left to talk about. "A marriage without any connection is as good as dead." In the struggle that followed, he pushed me to protect his mistress, shoving me right over the 15th-floor railing. When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the moment he first brought up needing freshness. This time, I'd show him what keeping his distance really meant.