When being home isn't being together

“You're both home for the evening — dinner's done, kitchen's cleaned up. Your partner settles into their chair with their book, you're on the couch with yours. It's comfortable, quiet, easy. But somewhere in the middle of it, you look over and realize this is just... every night now. You can't remember the last time you actually chose to be together rather than just happened to be in the same room.”