The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved....

“ The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague. ”

Stephen Dobyns

From : Eating Naked: Stories