Chapter 25 - RYAN ASKSThree years after the divorce, Ryan asked me to dinner.

Not reconciliation.
Dinner.
I almost refused.
Then said yes.
We talked.
About Noah.
Work.
Therapy.
Linda.
Thomas.
Us.
Ryan said:
“I spent my whole life believing avoiding conflict kept the family together.”
I listened.
“It didn't.”
“No.”
“It just decided who had to suffer instead of me.”
That was the deepest thing he had ever understood.
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He didn't ask me to come back.
That was why I agreed to another dinner.