That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.