You're very good at your craft, Hildy.
Yet you cannot explain away the marriage vows.
Nor can you quantify fidelity, or loyalty, or love without denigrating those very things.
If someone gives a timespan of loyalty, the odds are great the loyalty is already gone.
Same with trust, and love, and fidelity...and so on.
Interesting to find out what caused you to turn that particular corner.
Excellent choice of words.