There is something that intensely concerns me, a thought that keeps coming repeatedly and torments me. How come four years of marriage have passed, and I still haven’t gotten pregnant? A child is what I want the most, and same goes for Panos, as he has implied lately – with half-words. But no child comes…
Marriage without a child? I wonder more and more often. How will I endure so much loneliness in my life? Having a kid becomes – day after day – an obsession for me. And there are some neighbours who often slide the conversation around until they start talking in front of me about babies and pregnancies… “Children are necessary for a family to be completed” or “children tie a family together,” they argue, trying to learn, full of curiosity, why our child is taking so long to come. A good-
