Claimed by my ex husband’s uncle
The specific Sophia version of this question, which means: not how are the children and the work and the program, but how are you, Elena, inside all of it.
"Settled," I say. "Which is not the same as finished. There is always more work. But the foundation is settled — the house, the partnership, the children, the sense of who I am in relation to all of it." I pause. "I am the most myself I have ever been. I have been the most myself I have ever been for approximately two years now, it continues to be new and to continue being itself simultaneously, which is a thing I did not know was possible before I experienced it."