Relationships

Relationships are hard in that very normal, very human way where two people with totally different wiring try to build something that doesn’t fall over like a badly assembled IKEA shelf.

Some days it works. Some days it wobbles. Some days you look at it thinking, “This should not be this complicated.”

And when you’re already stretched thin physically, emotionally, mentally the hard parts feel even harder. The gaps feel bigger. The misunderstandings feel sharper. The limitations feel louder than the intentions behind them.

But hard doesn’t mean wrong. Hard doesn’t mean hopeless. Hard just means two humans doing their best with the tools they’ve got even if one of those tools is basically a butter knife.