New Daddy

This afternoon [wife tearfully venting frustration over home, quagmire of life, etc.] with two of the kids in the room.

Afterwards, #2 (six years old) said quietly, while looking away and toward the door after she'd walked out, said "I think mommy..." Pause. "I think..." Pause.

Took him in my lap, told him he could say anything he wanted, whatever he was feeling, and I wouldn't get angry and it'd be OK, finally coaxed out of him: "I think mommy wants a new daddy. I think she wants a new family."