Joint Custody

Joint CustodyThe first couple of times we had sex, I didn't hear any grunting. It was our third time together, in her apartment, that it hit me—nothing loud or obvious, just a soft, steady, valvelike suspiration floating over the music of Sue Foley. More the sounds of an elderly person trying to sleep than those of an amazing 26-year-old Pilates instructor for whom I was rapidly falling. Her face was muted in the dark—we had yet to do it with the lights on—so I couldn't be sure it was coming fro...