you to keep being hurt.”
Her words nearly broke my heart.
I had spent so much time worrying about whether Daniel would be upset that I had failed to recognize how much our situation affected the people who loved us.
“I don’t want that either,” I told her.
She squeezed my hand.
“Then don’t go back to how things were just because it’s easier.”
I stared at her.
It was almost exactly what I had told myself.
But hearing it from my daughter made the truth impossible to avoid.
Staying
