They sat in the living room in the dark for a long time. Neither wanting to be the first to speak. Both knowing what needed to be said.
Finally, Daniel broke the silence.
“We can’t keep doing this.”
“I know.”
“The fighting. The tension. We’re making each other miserable.”
Kassie pulled her knees up to her chest on the couch. “Yeah. We are.”
“I don’t know how to fix it,” Daniel said. “I’ve been thinking about it all weekend and I just… I don’t know what to do. I can’t make Lindy accept you. I can’t stop going down to see her. I can’t make Karen disappear. And I can’t ask you to spend the rest of your life being shut out of a huge part of mine.”
“I know you can’t.”
“So what do we do?”
Kassie was quiet for a long moment. Then, softly: “Maybe we need to accept that this isn’t working.
