The Lily Book

Lifechanging.

Probably not..

I am grateful that there was more good than bad. - And that is not romanticized. Because when it was bad, it felt enormous which is misleading and at times blinding.

At 37:34

We resolve it or we don't. You listen or you don't. I am able to voice myself or I don't. You are calm or you aren't. You choose not to react or you don't. You listen and remain calm or you don't. You see me or you don't. You provide a safe space while you listen or you don't. You provide a safe space, listen, hear, see me, etc. to allow me to relax because I know you're providing that to be safe and vulnerable and able to come to you or you don't.

or rather why would I say what you wanted me to say The answer is layered and I could have said what you wanted me to say, simply as that and just have left But if I said what you wanted and simply thought, it would've been a lie. And it wasn't something I was going to say just for sakes Your experience therefor takes me as someone who perhaps is being difficult, perhaps is being a dick, perhaps doesn't want to answer. It's not that I don't want to answer. - Simply and not simply, she could not answer. She did believe him. So no, there was no inkling as she had told him. The later was the truth. The later he heard but not the first.