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My partner is right, no matter what

It’s dusky in the living room. Sabine turns on the desk lamp and packs documents into a large shoulder bag. As she gets ready to go, Roland comes in.

“When are you coming back?” he asks.

Sabine rolls her eyes. “Don’t know,” she answers and shoulders the bag.

“Are you starting with that again? You always answer ‘I don’t know.’ But I want to know when you’re coming home!”

“We have to work and…”

“Not that again,” Roland interrupts. “Last time, all you did was gab for hours. You call that work?”

“Right. We gabbed, but before that, we worked. I won’t let you spoil my therapy training! I’m leaving!”

“You’ll stay, and we’ll talk!”

Sabine puts her bag back on the desk and shakes her head. “You’re like my mother. I won’t be locked up! I worked hard all day.”

“Worked? What do you mean by ‘worked’? I know the meaning of work. I’ve been on my feet since four this morning, and now it’s seven in the evening, and I’m dead tired. First I was in the meat factory, then shopping at St. Marx, and in the afternoon in the store at the cash register. And what are you doing? You sit at your desk. And now you want to go out and have fun?”

Roland is bewildered and furious. He wants Sabine to stay home tonight. But she remains silent and rummages in her bag without searching for anything in particular. She’s angry, and all she wants is to get away as fast as possible.

“I’m leaving!” she says, and slams the door behind her.

Roland is left behind, agitated, and immediately dives into his work. That helps to distract him from nagging thoughts: Is Sabine really meeting with colleagues? Just recently a man walked her home, quite a likable one at that!

After work, while Sabine tells her girlfriends about the fight with Roland, he’s in bed, unable to fall asleep. Like poison, the fear that Sabine no longer loves him eats away at his thoughts.

Sabine comes home very late. Tired and weary, she climbs into bed. “Where have you been for so long?” he explodes.

Sabine remains silent. But Roland sticks to his guns, and so they argue and argue until finally, in the early morning hours, they embrace and fall asleep.