We ain't talking about baseball. We're talking about you going off and laying up with another woman and bringing her home to me. That's what we're talking about.
We're not talking about no baseball. Rose, you're not listening to me. I'm trying to explain it to you the best way I know how. It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.
Well, I've been standing with you. I've been right here with you, Troy. I've got a life, too. I gave 18 years of my life to stand in the same spot as you.
Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me?
Don't you think I would cross my mind and want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You're not the only one who's got wants and needs.
But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over.
I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. It didn't take me no 18 years to realize the soil was hard. and rocky and it was never gonna bloom but I held on to you Troy I held you tighter you was my husband I owed you everything I had every part of me I could find to give you and upstairs in that bedroom with the darkness falling in on me Everything I had to try and erase the doubt that you wasn't the finest man in the world and wherever you was going, I was going to be there with you because you was my husband.
Because that's the only way I was gonna survive is your wife. You're always talking about what you give and what you don't have to give. But you take too, Troy. You take and don't even know nobody's giving.
You say I take and don't give. Troy, you hurt me. You say I take and don't give.
Troy, you hurt my own life. I don't give you everything I got. Don't you tell that lie to me.
Troy. Don't you tell that lie to me. Troy, you hurt me. Troy.
Troy. All right. That's strike two.
You stay away from around me boy! Don't you strike out! You're living with a full count!