“Silas, I know we were both raised on bread crumbs of affection and emotional stability, so this stuff feels like speaking in code sometimes,” he says. “But I need you to promise me that you’ll at least try to talk to me about it. Whenever something’s bothering you or you can’t figure out how I feel, you have to say something. Otherwise, I won’t be able to help you. It’s the only way we’ll be able to make things work when we have the combined emotional intelligence of a celery stick, okay?”
