Кадр выше наш. Полное медиа с Facebook запрошено — подставим его сюда, как только приедет.
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🛑 Honestly. I never thought I'd write something like this. My name's Jasper. I'm 38. I live in Leeds. Been an electrician for twelve years. Up at half five. Breakfast standing up. Drive to the site. Work. Come home. Eat whatever's in the fridge. Sofa. Phone. Sleep. Repeat. Fifty-two times a year. My wife Rachel is a good woman. Not nasty, not dramatic. It's just that at some point something went out in her eyes. Not all at once. Gradually. First she stopped suggesting things to do on Friday nights. Then she stopped browsing hotel sites — she used to do it just for fun, «for the future». Then one Saturday I found her at the kitchen table with a cold cup of tea. Just sitting there. Staring out the window at the neighbour's fence. I asked: «You alright?» She said: «Yeah». But that «yeah» was so quiet and tired that I didn't ask anything else. Sometimes in the evenings she'd say something. «Jasper, we haven't been anywhere in three years.» «I know, Rach. Soon.» «You always say soon.» «Because it will be soon.» She'd nod. Go watch telly. We both knew «soon» wasn't a date. It was just a way to close the conversation. But the conversation never really closed. Mortgage — £1,100 a month. Food — getting more expensive. Petrol — getting more expensive. Insurance, bills, car repair in March, the boiler that's started making a noise we're both pretending not to hear because we know — it'll be £600 minimum to fix. I earn decent money for an electrician. But Leeds isn't a village. And life takes everything by the end of the month. Nothing left for savings. Nothing left for a holiday. Rachel showed me some photos once. Lisbon. A small hotel in Alfama, a terrace looking out over the river, little tables right by the water, a sunset over the rooftops. «Look how beautiful,» she said. «Yeah,» I said. «I want to go there.» I looked at the price. £680 for two, flights and three nights. Did the maths in my head. Not now. «Soon, Rach.» She closed her phone a
