The best relationships
begin—
not with two people
who understand,
but with two people
who do not.
They think they do.
They try.
But we do not fully know
what the other knows.
We cannot.
Not yet.
I understand
your experience
only when
you tell me
what I do not know.
Because I cannot
know it as you do.
And so, I listen.
Without assumptions.
Without interruption.
Without shaping your story
into my own.
I do not rush to understand.
I wait,
I wonder,
I let you show me.
And somehow—
between the words,
between the silences,
between what is said
and what is left unsaid—
we connect.
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