known all along.
The strength of a relationship isn’t measured by how long two people have been together, how many difficulties they have survived, or how convincingly they can pretend everything is fine.
It’s measured by what they do when the truth becomes uncomfortable.
Sometimes, love means standing beside someone while they face a problem.
Sometimes, it means forgiving a person who has made a painful mistake.
And sometimes, it means drawing a boundary and refusing to let another person’s fear become an excuse for dishonesty.
I still remember the
