I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.
Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
But not all scars showed, did they?
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.