again at 5 a.m., Irvin stood in the doorway holding two cups of coffee.
He also stopped being the neighborhood handyman by default.
He learned that having no romantic interest in someone wasn’t enough when that person kept testing the marriage.
Boundaries had to be visible, not assumed.
And I learned something too.
Boundaries had to be visible, not assumed.
Vanessa had nearly controlled us because we were terrified of what would happen if she exposed a real mistake.
The moment we faced it ourselves, she had nothing left to trade.
