Scorpio

The words that cannot be taken back are not usually the cruel ones but the true ones, the ones that named what you both knew was there but had agreed not to see. Once spoken, they change the shape of every conversation that comes after. You cannot go back to the version of yourselves that existed before someone said the quiet part out loud. What remains is not the damage of honesty but the strange relief of it, the way a room feels different once all the windows have been opened. The hardest part is not the saying but the living afterward in the changed air.