Rebuilding Without Them
Rebuilding my life after James and Emily was not about moving on.
It was about learning how to exist in a world that no longer included them physically, but still carried them everywhere emotionally.
I kept their photos.
I kept their voices in memory.
I kept the routines we once had, slowly adjusting them into something survivable.
But I stopped making space for people who abandoned me in the moment I needed them most.
