Re: painterlysmile@gmail.com/wordsnotaction@gmail.com
To convince myself? I'm a hardboiled cynic, my dear.
I don't have any idea how it works. But I would still give it a while before you write it off as 'you're fucked'.
She didn't. At all.
You're right. You do. But you work harder at not hurting them, and making amends when you do, if they want to be there and if they prefer the amends to you not being there in the first place.