It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.

And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

I have become very good at clearing histories.