The Weight of Our Silence
Language: en
After my childhood sweetheart and I plunged into yet another cold war, I didn't try to coax him out of it like I usually did. My friends tried to advise me. "He's just awkward. He says things he doesn't mean." "A complicated guy like him just needs a patient partner to understand him." But I was truly exhausted, and I didn't want to lower my head anymore. The years of cold wars, arguments, and his constant emotional evasion had worn me down to the point where I couldn't tell anymore—was it just his personality, or did he simply not love me? So, when he threatened me with a breakup once…