Of Our Own Devices

The worst part of losing someone to death (though losing them to distance, physical or emotional can be close. After all “To part is to die a little.”) is that you keep examining everything you did wrong in relation to that person.

This is particularly awful if it was a bad relationship. Or if it was a bad relationship for a time or after some signal event.

And sure, you often can see where the problem was on the other side, but the whole “none of us are perfect.” And you wonder if y...