Quiet Crash
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston writes about the protagonist Janie Crawford’s relationships with her three husbands and how they reveal her evolving relationship with herself. During an argument with her second husband, Janie realizes that “something fell off the shelf inside of [her].” That wasn’t the end of the relationship, but it was, in hindsight when she knew it was over. I’ve often used this phrase when talking with my friends about the breaking-up of interpersonal relationships. There are, I opine from my own experience, three break-ups. ...
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