I can’t say I didn’t enjoy some of it. Nick teased out of me things I didn’t know existed. A lightness, a humour, an ease. But I made him smarter, sharper. I inspired him to rise to my level. I forged the man of my dreams. We were happy to pretend to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what’s the point of being together if you’re not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier cool girl. You think I’d let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No fucking way. He doesn’t get to win. My cute, charming, salt-of-the-Earth, Missouri guy. He needed to learn. Grown-ups work for things. Grown-ups pay. Grown-ups suffer consequences.

- Gone Girl (2014)