You text first, suggest coffee, and remember the birthday. You ask how the hospital appointment went, and you are the one who notices when it has been two months and nobody has...

Nobody is fighting. That is the strange part.You get along fine. You divide the shopping, you know exactly how the other one takes their coffee, and you can have an entire conversation...

You have been calm for six weeks. You have not taken the bait once; you have answered every difficult question in a level voice, and you were starting to feel quite proud...

You said it. One sentence, calm, no shouting, exactly the way you had practised it in the car on the way over, and then everything in the room got very much worse...

You left years ago. The relationship is finished, the person lives somewhere else, and you have built a whole life since.And you still argue with them in your head while you are...

Have you known someone who you think is the most likable person?You can’t think that nobody dislikes them, not even their own family or relatives.When you’re with them:Waiters smile at them.Strangers are...

Nobody hands you a manual. You do your best, you love her enormously, and you still lie awake some nights wondering which of your mistakes she will carry into her thirties.I want...

Imagine a cancer treatment with no incision, no needle, no radiation, and no chemotherapy. You lie on a table, a machine points sound at your liver, and about an hour later you...