2013.01.31 Thursday 13:11
陽菜ひよ子
『MARRIAGE』-妻の祈り-
When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
仕事から帰宅すると、妻は食事の支度をととのえていた。
僕は彼女の手をにぎり「話があるんだ」と切り出した。
妻は何も言わず席についた。その目は苦痛に満ちていた。
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?
ふと、僕はどう切り出したらいいのか分からなくなった。
でも言わなければならない。「離婚したいんだ」と。
僕は冷静に、その言葉を口にした。
妻は大したリアクションも見せず、ただ静かに聞き返した。「どうして？」
I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!
その問いに敢えて答えないでいたら、妻はとうとう怒りをあらわにした。
彼女は箸を投げ散らかし叫んだ。「あんたなんか、男じゃない！！」
その夜、その口論のあと
僕らはとうとう一言も言葉を交わさなかった。
妻のすすり泣く声がかすかに聞こえた。
わかっている。どうして僕らがこうなってしまったのか、妻はその理由を知りたがっているのだ。
でも僕は、彼女を納得させられるような説明をとうてい与えられるはずはなかった。
それもそのはず。僕は「ジェーン」という他の女性を愛してしまったのだ。
妻のことは、、、もう愛していなかった。
ただ哀れんでいただけだったのだ！
With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.
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