Liz had hers on a Wednesday afternoon in her car. She tells me about it over lunch; a backseat full of groceries and halfway home, she felt something breaking inside her, so she drove to the lake and sat very still, waiting.
Then it happened, she says, I broke right open. I wept, then sobbed, then wailed. There was no bottom.
She says she may have even fallen asleep, she doesn't know; she does know that she eventually stopped crying, that inside she felt like the fields must feel after a hard rain.
Here, she says, moving her hand to her chest, I just felt brand new again. I'm a better wife now, she says, a better person.
Good, Liz, good, I say.
I don't tell her about that morning in the shower, when the water warmed me but could not console me, or how I'm no better for it.