we decided to leave early so we could stop at my sister's house on the way back - it was a nice break.
there are things i want to say about t. and where his head is right now...we had a really intense and sad conversation last night - he is in so much emotional pain it was hard to know what to say to him. we know each other very well but he actually managed to shock me with some of the stuff he was saying last night. how do you give hope to someone who says he feels hopeless? how do you even attempt to show him that it won't last forever without sounding trite or dismissive of his pain? i guess the answer is in what i did last night, which was listen. for a long time.