Leo

The conversation you have been avoiding is not the one you think it is. You have been rehearsing the version where you explain yourself, where you make your case, where you defend what you have built. But the real conversation is smaller and harder: it is about whether what you have been protecting is worth the cost of the protection. The words you need are not the ones that justify your position but the ones that name what you actually want from this person, stripped of the reasons why you deserve it. The conversation that needs to happen is the one where you show up without your case already made.