The next day Kassie made a decision. One she didn’t know if she’d regret or not. Instead of letting the Lindy situation consume them, Kassie had made a conscious decision to put it aside. Not forever. Not even resolved. Just… aside. “I can’t fix this right now,” she’d told Daniel one night in bed. “And neither can you. So I’m choosing to focus on us instead. On what we can control.” “What does that mean?” “It means I love you. It means I want this to work. It means I’m tired of letting a child who doesn’t even know me dictate whether we’re happy or not.” “So what do we do?” “We live our lives. You have your relationship with Lindy. I have my relationship with you. And we stop waiting for those two things to magically align.” It wasn’t a perfect solution. But it was something. And

