The Lies That Bind

by Emily Giffin

He loves me, and he wants to be with me. But with conditions.

And I love him back, but with reservations and unfulfilled wishes—not in the unbridled way I want to love someone.

Suddenly, instead of seeing the world in black and white terms, I saw before me a good person who had simply done some bad things. And I was no different. We had both made mistakes and told lies—some bigger than others—but those mistakes and lies didn’t have to define us. We could embrace the shades of gray and begin again, together.