Jonathan Fields

This episode of Good Life Project was produced by executive producers, Lindsay Fox and me, Jonathan Fields.

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Until next time, I'm Jonathan Fields, signing off for Good Life Project.

So there's a conversation that I need to have with someone I love.

I have known this for a while, longer than I'd like to admit, honestly.

I know the general shape of what I want to say.

I know this person well enough to make some reasonable predictions about how it might go.

And I have thought about it in the car at two in the morning, in the middle of other conversations that are not the one I actually need to be having, and yet.

I keep not having it.

There's something almost impressive about the architecture of avoidance a reasonably intelligent person can construct.

The timing is never quite right.

There's always something just more pressing.

The relationship is in a good place right now.

And why would I introduce turbulence?

I mean, I've probably built this up in my head and the actual conversation would be

Fine.

Maybe I'm being oversensitive.

Maybe I've already processed this enough that saying it out loud isn't really necessary anymore.