Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.