Tora

Oh, I feel bad, and she is my son's mother, but also we can't keep doing this, and I need to get out of this marriage. That night, they ended up talking until 1 a.m. I have work at 8 a.m., and he said, just crash in my guest room. Here's some clean pajamas. Here's a toothbrush. Just crash downstairs. And I did, which is so out of character for me.

I felt a little weird, but I was very happy to be around him and just wanted to stay there and be helpful. I love to be helpful. I love to be needed. So I stayed the night, got up in the morning, trucked off to work. And then the next day he said, hey, I've got a test coming up if you're free later on. I went back over there.

I felt a little weird, but I was very happy to be around him and just wanted to stay there and be helpful. I love to be helpful. I love to be needed. So I stayed the night, got up in the morning, trucked off to work. And then the next day he said, hey, I've got a test coming up if you're free later on. I went back over there.

I felt a little weird, but I was very happy to be around him and just wanted to stay there and be helpful. I love to be helpful. I love to be needed. So I stayed the night, got up in the morning, trucked off to work. And then the next day he said, hey, I've got a test coming up if you're free later on. I went back over there.

I was always sleeping in the guest room. I made it very clear to him. I don't let people touch me. I'm not interested in a romantic relationship. I'm just here to help. I want to be your friend. I want you to feel supported. But that's as far as this is going to go. And I just kept telling him, like, we're just friends. I don't let people touch me.

I was always sleeping in the guest room. I made it very clear to him. I don't let people touch me. I'm not interested in a romantic relationship. I'm just here to help. I want to be your friend. I want you to feel supported. But that's as far as this is going to go. And I just kept telling him, like, we're just friends. I don't let people touch me.

I was always sleeping in the guest room. I made it very clear to him. I don't let people touch me. I'm not interested in a romantic relationship. I'm just here to help. I want to be your friend. I want you to feel supported. But that's as far as this is going to go. And I just kept telling him, like, we're just friends. I don't let people touch me.

The fact that I give you hugs is kind of exceptional. You have to respect that. And he really did.

The fact that I give you hugs is kind of exceptional. You have to respect that. And he really did.

The fact that I give you hugs is kind of exceptional. You have to respect that. And he really did.

He was a very guarded person. So a lot of what he would talk about was things that were very present right now. If he brought up the past, it always felt like kind of an honor that he trusted me with that story. And he would point that out in a very subtle way of, oh, I don't really tell people this story, but you're different.

He was a very guarded person. So a lot of what he would talk about was things that were very present right now. If he brought up the past, it always felt like kind of an honor that he trusted me with that story. And he would point that out in a very subtle way of, oh, I don't really tell people this story, but you're different.

He was a very guarded person. So a lot of what he would talk about was things that were very present right now. If he brought up the past, it always felt like kind of an honor that he trusted me with that story. And he would point that out in a very subtle way of, oh, I don't really tell people this story, but you're different.

The whole time I'm with my family, I'm bringing him up and I'm talking with him on the phone. And they're seeing that this person is making me kind of giddy and smiley and those kinds of things.

The whole time I'm with my family, I'm bringing him up and I'm talking with him on the phone. And they're seeing that this person is making me kind of giddy and smiley and those kinds of things.

The whole time I'm with my family, I'm bringing him up and I'm talking with him on the phone. And they're seeing that this person is making me kind of giddy and smiley and those kinds of things.

He had cleaned the whole house. He had some of my favorite music on. Baby was in bed. He had, you know, a bouquet of flowers and a card welcoming me home and thanking me for being his friend. And that was my first sort of inkling, like, hmm, I'm going to have to keep an eye on this because here I was at home kind of being giddy about this person. Here he is bringing me flowers.

He had cleaned the whole house. He had some of my favorite music on. Baby was in bed. He had, you know, a bouquet of flowers and a card welcoming me home and thanking me for being his friend. And that was my first sort of inkling, like, hmm, I'm going to have to keep an eye on this because here I was at home kind of being giddy about this person. Here he is bringing me flowers.

He had cleaned the whole house. He had some of my favorite music on. Baby was in bed. He had, you know, a bouquet of flowers and a card welcoming me home and thanking me for being his friend. And that was my first sort of inkling, like, hmm, I'm going to have to keep an eye on this because here I was at home kind of being giddy about this person. Here he is bringing me flowers.

So there was this undercurrent starting where I'm repeatedly saying, like, we're just friends, but we're friends who are snuggling on the couch watching a movie and not touching, he just started just leaning like my head on his shoulder or something. So benign, so middle school, but it was perfect for me because I wasn't ready to do that.