Your brother, my husband
Raymond said, stretching his arms over his head, "this would have been easier if you weren't so allergic to compromise."
"Compromise tends to get a bad rep. I prefer to call it... strategic calibration."
He laughed. "Right. Spoken like a man who never had siblings."
I didn’t reply to that. Not because I didn’t have a comeback, but because he was right. I had never learned to bend until I broke.
Raymond’s world had been forged in shared spaces, shared pain, shared responsibilities. Mine was carved in silence, pressure, and loneliness.
Yet here we were, learning from each other without needing to say it out loud.
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