Commissioned by Loamlife Written by HikerAngel Jay couldn’t sleep. The deep purple bags under his eyes suggested otherwise, but his brain refused to allow slumber to come to him. With his wife, Cassie, sleeping in the guest bedroom for the better part of a month, he thought her lack of snoring would at least improve his chances, but it hadn’t. Not even the silver lining perks of his failing marriage could calm his mile a minute mind. He was adamant that he and Cassie would stay together for the sake of their two daughters, but even he was beginning to suspect that wouldn’t last. The couple couldn’t go an hour without arguing about the littlest things, with Jay insisting he was right about everything even after realizing that he had been battling for a lost cause. She kept calling him out on his stubbornness, but he continued down the path. Nearly pushing forty five, Jay had simply become set in his ways. To be a man was to know, to teach. That he believed. If he couldn’t be assured