<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Marriage Dilemmas — World of Curious</title><description>Original short fiction about the decisions long marriages actually turn on.</description><link>https://worldofcurious.com/</link><language>en-au</language><atom:link href="https://worldofcurious.com/marriage-dilemmas/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>They Moved in February. Fixing the Tense Took Two Years.</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-5/</guid><description>Part five of five. The move was right. That turned out to be the complicating factor rather than the ending.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Marriage Dilemmas</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>work</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>No, Because Then It Is Mine</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-4/</guid><description>Part four of five. He offered to turn the job down. She refused, for a reason that took him five weeks to understand.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Marriage Dilemmas</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>work</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>The List She Wrote on the Back of an Envelope at Two in the Morning</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-3/</guid><description>Part three of five. Eleven things in one column, two things in the other, and the item that made the whole list impossible to argue with.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Marriage Dilemmas</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>work</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>The Boarding Pass Was Still in the Pocket of the Jacket</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first-part-2/</guid><description>Part two of five. She took his jacket to the dry cleaner, went through the pockets out of habit, and found out how many times he had already been.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Marriage Dilemmas</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>work</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>He Said He Had Taken the Job. Not That He Had Been Offered It.</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/he-accepted-the-job-first/</guid><description>Part one of five. Marianne was holding a colander of green beans when her husband told her, in the past tense, that they were moving eleven hundred kilometres.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Marriage Dilemmas</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>work</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item></channel></rss>