DON'T TALK ABOUT:

• the past.
• gender or sexuality.
• money.
• the future.
• work.
• mental health.
• song lyrics.
• hair.
• sleep.

If I touch any of these subjects, it’ll start again. Our voices will raise in volume and pitch until we’re yelling at each other. Our faces will grow red. Our bodies will grow tense.

I don’t know how. I don’t know why.

I just know that it happens.

And I hate it.