Time Can't Teach Me to Love You

She is eight and he is fourteen. He turned a blind eye when he saw her trapped in a tree; he turned a blind eye when she fell into a puddle. She was twenty-four and he was thirty. He said to her: "The marriage has been decided, and you will be my wife. I tolerate your nonsense, but I may not tolerate other people's wishful thinking." In these years, I have been you with tenderness and you with violence; you have been you with passion and you with indifference; you have been the one who loves me and you have been the one who hates me...