Take a break.

Let me spoil you a little.

I had no idea I was writing, in eight careless words, the exact sentence my husband most needed to hear and was most terrified of, the whole argument of the next two years of our lives, the thing that would eventually crack open his solitude and let us all back in.

Sometimes the truest thing you will ever say to a person, you say by accident, before you understand it yourself.

You don’t have to take care of everyone, it said.