Our relationship so far has been rooted in mistrust, posturing, and testing the waters, but we don’t have to continue down that path, not if we don’t want to. He’s giving us a chance to recalibrate and move forward from a place of mutual understanding and sincerity. He’s giving me the illusion of choice, even though we both know it doesn’t really exist, and it warms the dark recesses of my broken little heart.
