Perhaps I don’t want to lean on my friends because this incident is proof that I was the one who wasn’t an anomaly. I had been cautioned that “few relationships survive transition” and that “Nick ultimately wants a man.” I tried to brush these warnings off, telling myself that we were different somehow. Every time I shared what other people had said to me, or discussed my own feelings of undesirability now that I was no longer the bearded, muscled guy you fell in love with, you reassured me, saying, “You are the most beautiful person I have ever met.” How could you hurt me so sharply, at this
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