Matthew smiled.
“I have always been proud. I just finally learned that loving her does not mean deciding who she should become.”
For most of our lives, one of us had always been leading while the other followed.
Matthew had believed love meant clearing every obstacle from my path.
I had believed being loved meant allowing someone else to choose the safest direction.
We were both wrong.
Real love was not controlling another person’s journey, even with good intentions.
It was respecting their right to hesitate, choose badly, fall, recover, and grow.
Matthew no longer walked ahead of me, pulling me toward the future he believed I deserved.
I no longer waited behind him to be guided.
For the first time, we were simply walking side by side.
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