Lida hummed her favorite song under her breath, and her hands quickly prepared breakfast. The shower was gurgling in the bathroom, and my husband's voice was gurgling along with it. An ordinary morning before work. The Nokia melody started playing, “someone needed a husband this morning,” Lida thought and took the phone into the bath. The phone stopped ringing, but an SMS arrived. Lida automatically clicked on the message... “Darling, I’m waiting for you as usual. Tell me something of your own and stay the night with me. I love. Want. Yours, yours, yours." The phone falls and shatters on the tiles, at my husband’s feet... What should I do? Should I leave or stay? Pretend that nothing happened? Kick him out? Options for the development of further events: • Lida goes to Natalya, because... Natalya, like Lida, is an “ideal couple” in their company. Natalya should probably know exactly what to do. Natalya didn’t believe it for a long time, she said that Lida had mixed something up and this couldn’t happen! Then she muttered something like: “We need to talk to you, somehow figure this out...”. Then she began, for some reason, to say that everything was not like that with Pavel, everything was different with them and there was no point in comparing their relationship with the Lidins. And then she remembered the appointment and promised to meet another time. Behind the scenes. Often people are afraid of other people's grief as if it were contagious. Rarely does anyone want to mix other people's suffering and pain into their streak of well-being. Maybe Natalya doesn’t want to know that there is betrayal so close, she doesn’t want to destroy her myth of the “ideal couple,” and therefore is not ready to accept such information. Here Lida is unlikely to find consolation and understanding. • The meeting with Alena should be decisive. After all, everyone knows that she has a “male” man who won’t miss a single skirt. Alena immediately offered a glass of wine. She talked for a long time on the topic: “Men are assholes and this cannot be changed. You need to humble yourself and endure. Who needs you besides him? No one. Close your eyes and live as before.” Lida sobbed over her glass, trying to find at least the slightest way out of the pain that tormented her soul. Alena’s proposals were real, but Lida’s soul, for some reason, refused to accept them. Behind the scenes. Dear Lida. Run away from this friend quickly! Often it is from such a situation that first a trickle flows, and then an ocean called “Female alcoholism”, in which you can drown without even noticing how. There is another danger - Alenina’s acceptance of her, so familiar to her, but very low self-esteem, is below par. And then depression is just around the corner. • A trip to see your mother is a chance to alleviate suffering and make the right decision. Mom and dad have been living together for 43 years, and who else but she knows the secret of surviving crises in the family. Mom sat and cried into her shawl with Lida. Her main and most frequent words were: “How is this possible? How is he not ashamed? After all, you have two children. I would think about the children. You tell him - he won't get children. He will remain with his young woman in his old age. Don’t worry, Lida. We’ll raise our children ourselves, we’ll raise them somehow.” Mom gave Lida strength, but the pain in her soul scraped and ached as before. Behind the scenes. Yes, it’s an unenviable fate to be left with two children. And then, all my life, bear a grudge against their father and remind my son (in convenient cases) - “You, like your father, also lie and deceive me.” What does the children have to do with it, they didn’t cheat? There is another risk. If Lida suddenly finds it difficult to live alone, there is always the opportunity to remind her mother of her divorce proposal. And then you can shift the responsibility for making the decision to separate from your husband onto mommy. Then the question is: what does mom have to do with it, because she didn’t cheat, didn’t deceive, and generally wanted what was best? • Lida is not going anywhere, she is not going anywhere. She bitterly slaps her husband and goes to collect his things. In anger, she stuffs all her husband’s clothes into bags, suitcases, packages and furiously throws them onto the landing. "Get out of my life! I don't want to see you anymore! Never!" she shouts after the leaving man. And then he goes to the kitchen and….beats, hits, hits plates, cups, mugs… Then he sobs loudly until.