The Five Worst Words

My husband tormented me with these words for years

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“As far as you know.”

It’s such a simple phrase. It doesn’t even seem toxic upon first looking at it.

I crawled into bed with my husband one summer night, and I realized I didn’t do the rounds of locking the doors and windows. “Hey Eric, did you happen to lock the doors and shut the windows?”