How Do You Fall Out of Love With Someone on a Tuesday

You asked me to stay.

I want to start there because I think people forget that part. Or maybe you forget that part. But I don’t. I don’t forget the way your voice sounded when you said it— not angry, not proud, not any of the versions of you I’d learned to navigate. Just bare. Just a person asking another person not to leave, and meaning it in a way I co…