From a short story by the talented Yiyun Li, After a Life, which grapples with sankhara-dukkha.

The young cousin has become the stooping husband. The perfect life has turned out less so. The year Beibei reached ten—a miracle worth celebrating—her husband brought up the idea of a second baby. Why? she asked, and he talked about a healthier marriage, a more complete family. She did not understand his reasoning, and she knew, even when Jian was growing in her belly, that they would get a good baby but it would do nothing to save them from what had been destroyed. They had built a world around Beibei, but her husband decided to turn away from it in search of a family more like other people’s. Mrs Su found it hard to understand, but wasn’t there an old saying about men always being interested in changing, and women in preservation? A woman accepted anything from life and made the best of it; a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.

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It amazes and saddens Mrs Su that Beibei’s life is so obstinate that it has outlived the love that once made it.

Full short story here.