No, staying married wasn't easier than being divorced. Divorced was complicated, sure, but it happened and then it was over — that was worlds easier than the mountain Ben had decided to try and climb instead. Not that he regretted it, necessarily. He thought this was going to work, and he thought someday the two of them would be alright, but it would have been stupid to have claimed the route he'd chosen was the easy one.

Not that this was even close to what Ben actually wanted to be talking about, but now they were on the subject and he had no idea how to steer them to anything else. He watched the reflection of the light from the window waver on the top of the firewhiskey in his glass.

"It's — something," he said noncommittally. "It's what needs to happen."