has learned that the absence of an argument does not necessarily mean that a problem has been solved.
Sometimes, the person who stops asking questions has finally stopped believing that the answers will change anything.
Sometimes, silence is not acceptance.
It is exhaustion.
And sometimes, the most frightening consequence of betrayal is not the anger it creates.
It is the distance that grows when the person who has been hurt begins to build a life that no longer depends on the person who hurt them.
Last Sunday, Daniel came into