From 6538b455e087d1d50b0aad9f52b569d260f2b2e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:45:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/selected-letters/016.md | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/selected-letters/016.md b/writing/post-self/selected-letters/016.md index 4926d620..438ccf8e 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/selected-letters/016.md +++ b/writing/post-self/selected-letters/016.md @@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ I'm not sure how much ey's talked about my current situation, but it's come up b I hear it talked about as a cliche that the best outcome of a break-up is to remain friends, and I'm feeling pretty good about the direction we're headed there. It feels almost like a sign of maturity, I suppose, as opposed to something more acrimonious, but I don't know how true that is. -I know that you've had far more experience with relationships that any of us have. What have you found to be the best way to communicate with ex-partners after the relationship ends? Do you think we're on a good track? I know that every relationship is going to be different, but you've had a chance to spend some time with us (several decades back, granted). +I know that you've had far more experience with relationships that any of us have. What have you found to be the best way to communicate with ex-partners after the relationship ends? Do you think we're on a good track? I know that every relationship is going to be different, but you've had a chance to spend some time with us (several decades back, granted). Are there any suggestions you have for ways to make this...I don't know, productive for us? Make it something we can take good things away from, too? + +On that note, do you have any thoughts in general on relationships and change? Forty-odd years of a relationship feels like a long time, but then I realize just how old we all are, and maybe it isn't? But then again, the passage of time itself doesn't change just because we live longer, does it? + +Ah well. This has me feeling stuck up in my head as usual, trying to think everything into place. All the same, I appreciate the chance to be able to talk about it, even at a distance. + +Wishing you all the best, and the three of us send our love, as does █████. + +Codrin [^compartmentallized]: Something we compartmentalized right away and, it seems, have only just now started to process. It'll probably be a good thing, overall.