The Intolerance That Results When We Out Grow People
4 min readOct 8, 2021
I simply can’t tolerate the person I am with them. I thought it was them all along. That they had changed and that I couldn’t tolerate it, but I was wrong. I sat there staring at them sitting on the couch. At another dinner. A dinner we had repeated for close to 30 years. I sat there thinking about how this might be the dinner where I lost it. The sight of him and her cuddling was making me sick and…