The more I am open to the realities in the other person, even realities he denies in himself, the more helpful I can be to him.
Carl Rogers
Your Year of Staying True. This is the year you find out what the staying has been worth, the long, faithful kind of staying that never made headlines but quietly held everything together. A relationship you tended through its difficult season opens into something neither of you expected, easier and more honest than before, and the ease itself is the reward. At work, someone recognizes the texture of your loyalty before you think to name it yourself, and the recognition arrives at exactly the right moment. By spring, a repair you made with care has healed so completely that you almost forget it needed repair at all. The year ahead calls for no grand gestures. The intimacy you have cultivated in small, faithful increments is ready to show you what it has become.