“Co-addicted”

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The first thing was small. I need you to understand that. I need you to understand it because the smallness of it is the mechanism – the way damage begins in a thing so minor, so deniable, so easily absorbed into the background noise of an ordinary life that you do not identify it as…

The months that followed had the quality of the best kind of early relationship – the kind where everything is interesting because everything is new, where the other person is a subject you have not yet exhausted, where ordinary evenings acquire a brightness from the company that ordinary evenings do not usually have. We were…

I met Matt at a party I almost didn’t go to. I want to note this not because it is significant in any cosmic sense – the near-miss arrival, the party I could have skipped – but because I find it interesting, the way the architecture of a life turns on decisions made casually, made…

I want to tell you something before you read this. I’m not telling you this story from the other side. That’s the thing I need you to understand right away, before you settle in with the idea that what follows is the account of a woman who went through something difficult and came out clarified…