Cancer

The relationship that has changed without either of you naming the change is doing something neither of you expected it to do. It is teaching you both how to love around the edges of what cannot be said directly. You have been finding new ways to check in, smaller gestures that carry more weight, questions that sound casual but land exactly where they need to. The shift itself may never become a conversation, but the care you are both learning to offer in response to it is already the conversation that matters. Some forms of attention work better when they stay below the level of words.