10/09/2026
You decided without them.
Not out loud and not on any particular day. But you stopped waiting, and you stopped telling them things, and somewhere in there you started answering how many with a number that doesn't include them.
They never went anywhere. They're at the table. Some days they surface, and they're funny again, and they ask about your week and mean it. You've seen this before. So you stay where you are. You hold something back on purpose and you'd call it being smart.
They can tell. They don't say so. Neither do you.
Pauline Boss called this boundary ambiguity. Who's in and who's out, when the person won't stay on one side of it.
The mind is trained to sort. Here or gone. It picks. In private. Fast.
The work is to stop picking.
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