When comfort becomes invisible

“You and your partner have a loose Friday night habit — picking up food from the same Thai place, eating on the couch, watching something. It started because one particularly exhausted Friday it was exactly what you both needed. But now it's just what Fridays are. Tonight you're pulling into the parking lot of the Thai place on autopilot when you realize neither of you has said a word since you left the house, and you can already picture the next three hours exactly.”