Libra
School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The relationship that has changed without either of you naming the change operates now on a different set of assumptions than it did six months ago. You both feel it in the small adjustments you have made to how you speak to each other, the topics that no longer come up naturally, the way invitations are phrased with more space built into them. What makes this hard is not that something has ended but that something new has begun without your participation in designing it. The conversation you are avoiding is not about what went wrong but about what you both want this to become.