He Told My Best Friend, “I Wish I’d Met You First.” I Walked Away. A Year Later, He Finally Understood.

The urge to shrink, to accommodate, to fix.

But I was tired. So tired. And something had shifted in me out there among the grapevines.

“I’m not upset,” I said quietly. “I’m done.”

He looked at me, confusion flickering across his face. “Done with what?”

“With this. With you. With pretending this is working when it hasn’t been working for a long time.”

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