How to Say I Do

by Tal Bauer

It was enough, I thought, to fall in love, even though he wouldn’t fall, too. It was enough to go a little crazy inside myself, and to feel like the world had lit on fire, and for these few days, to pretend that anything was possible.

All I’d really accomplished, when I was trying to save him from the disaster of me, was make him dig in his heels. The struggle, the heartache, the confusion— Somehow—astonishingly, amazingly—it had all been worth it to him. I seemed worth it to him.

When trauma leaves the mere idea of acceptance such a distant option, love all but seems impossible. That's what makes love world bending.