Cancer

When someone important to you starts responding differently and neither of you names what has changed, you become the keeper of small gestures that might bridge the gap. You find yourself asking how their day was with more attention than usual, or remembering to check in about something they mentioned weeks ago. The shift feels too fragile to address directly, so you tend to it sideways, through the careful offering of ordinary kindness. What you are doing is not avoiding the conversation but creating the conditions where it might eventually feel safe to happen.