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But she was growing tired of managing other people’s discomfort when nobody seemed concerned about her own.
“I needed someone to talk to and lean on beyond just dragging me out of the house to go to the gym. I needed my friend. And every time I reached for that, he moved out of the way. So I’d stopped reaching. I’d been protecting his peace while sacrificing my own, tiptoeing around him for fear of giving him more than he could deal with.”
― The Night We Met
― The Night We Met
“Life buries us. We get heavier and heavier as time goes on and we labor under the layers we’ve collected. Sometimes the layers make us who we are and sometimes they make us someone else entirely.”
― The Night We Met
― The Night We Met
“We’re fed the narrative that you never give up on the ones you love. And I did love Mike. But it wasn’t my job to hold him up while he decided if he wanted to stand or not. To scream at him to change until I lost my voice. I felt done.”
― The Night We Met
― The Night We Met
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