He Called It a “Compromise”—Until My Cats Exposed His True Heart

them and cried until my face hurt.

Not because I was unsure.

But because grief can exist even when you make the right choice.

Losing someone you loved hurts, even if the love was flawed. Even if the future you imagined wasn’t real anymore.

I looked around at the boxes and thought about how close I came to uprooting everything—my home, my routines, my little continue reading …