to begin everything from the beginning

[empireboys]

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.” He'd recognized that look. Please, it said. You're all I've got. She'd done it when she wasn't even trying. She'd shifted the balance between them. All of a sudden, instead of her trailing behind him, he was clinging to whatever she was willing to offer. "Forty-sixty," he said, looking at her with a newfound admiration. "Who would have guessed?" -- Mercy (Jodi Picoult)