Neither of us said it

Sitting down to this properly tonight.

He is finding this harder than I expected and neither of us has said so out loud. I am going to say so out loud.

Her husband found the change harder than she expected and they had a difficult month.

We used to eat together and now we do not, and that turns out to have been more of the marriage than either of us noticed.

Asked him to stop commenting. He was hurt, then relieved. It went better than the version I had rehearsed.

He does the injection. I look at the wall. It is one of the more tender things in our life and I would not have predicted that.

Small win. Counted.