The conversation your parents never had to have
You are twenty-eight, maybe thirty-two. You live in a city your parents moved to or you moved to alone. You have a job that requires things of you that your mother's marriage never had to accommodate: late calls, transfers, the particular exhaustion of building a career in a place where no one owes you anything. And somewhere alongside all of that, you are trying to figure out what you want from another person.
