“Listen,” Jon says more gently, “maybe it’s okay to not have the answers right now. I want to be with you. Even if that means continuing to give you space. I’m good with that. But what I do need is for you to be open and honest as we figure this out. You gotta stop shutting me out.” Over the last few weeks, I’ve put so much pressure on myself to be either fully in or fully out. I’ve been so caught up in assessing the risks and armoring myself against them that it hasn’t occurred to me that there is a third way: to let things grow and change and evolve, to uncover who we are and what we want
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