The exhausting art of loving people in pieces
I’ve been learning — rather painfully — the art of placing people in the proper corners of my heart.Ask me about this a few years back, and I’d have scoffed at the very notion. Boxes? Categories? How terribly limiting, how unfair to reduce someone to mere fragments of themselves.But here’s the thing about growing up: sometimes wisdom arrives wearing the cloth of disappointment, and you find yourself grateful for the lesson even as it stings. That lesson comes wrapped in the most heartbreaking re...
