India confronted me on the breakfast table the next day. "Den, I want us to have a trial separation. I think we need to reassess our priorities. You h...ve become less than appreciative of me and I am not even sure if you are in love with me anymore. I will be moving out for about a month and at the end of the month we will have a heart to heart talk about things." Where are you going to stay?" I asked without even breaking a sweat. She was a little surprised at my reaction."I will be staying at. "Rick felt his face burning as she continued to stare at him."No. no. I won't." He fled the office as quickly as he could, hurriedback to the flat and rushed straight past Chris and into his room. Heflopped on the bed and started to thump the pillow in anger andfrustration. Why couldn't he stand up for himself? Why did he alwayshave to give in to what others wanted? He heard Chris tapping on hisdoor."Go away," Rick shouted.Chris knocked again. "Rick, let me in, what's up?" Oh, come in if you. A few weeks ago, your parents went away on a vacation in Florida, so you had the house to yourself for a whole week. You never expected them to trust you there alone, but they did, and you were thrilled. You called up your friends and invited them to a party, despite your parents specifically telling you not to have one. It's just seven or eight people, nothing crazy, you told yourself.Unfortunately you never told your friends they couldn't bring their friends, and before you knew it there were. I tried to explain that the equity wasn’t much and the savings were only about $7,000 and the equity would be much less than that. “All told you will only get about that much if you’re lucky. Is that all you want is money?” I asked.She responded by, “No, I just want enough to leave here and nothing else. Everything else you can keep or give it away I don’t care what you do with it.”Well, all that went on seventeen months ago. I am slowly getting better but there are days when I am wandering.