Why Can’t You Just Love Me? Why

All His Words And Actions Would Now Be Fit For His Daughter’s Ears And Eyes. Life Would Be Lived As If Under [her] Constant Scrutiny. He Would Never Do Anything That Might Cause Her Pain Or Anxiety Or Embarrassment And There Would Be Nothing, Absolutely Nothing In His Life To Be Ashamed Of Anymore.

And Then Some Days You Wake Up And Everything's Perfect

Mortified At The Speed With Which Intimacy Evaporates.

And It Was At Moments Like This That She Had To Remind Herself That She Was In Love With Him, Or Had Once Been In Love With Him, A Long Time Ago.

As New Dawns Go, This One Is Depressingly Like The Old Dawn.