“You probably won’t believe me, but this relationship business is easier when you start young. You learn about yourselves and the world as you go along. Your growth is tangled up. Trying to do this now, more than 20 years into adulthood, is near impossible. I don’t have the energy. I don’t want to push people. Being on the same page isn’t enough. It has to be the same paragraph. Or sentence. Make sense?”
