The first time I understood that my marriage had become something colder than neglect, I was sitting beside my four-year-old daughter in the pediatric intensive-care unit at St. Anne’s Medical Center in Denver. Rosie had come through a complicated procedure only hours earlier. A rare immune disorder had inflamed the tissue around her lungs, and her recovery now depended on ten doses of an imported therapy called Aurelin, reserved through my husband’s company, Vale Specialty Distribution. Blake called just after midnight. “I canceled Rosie’s shipment,” he said. For several seconds, I…
