The Dinner List

"She had this sense it was just supposed to work, and you weren't supposed to have to work for it," Jessica says. "Like their love story was so epic the day-to-day didn't matter. But that's what relationships are. They're the day-to-day."

"You both started to be resentful of all the things you thought you'd given up for the other one, and that resentment took up all the space it pushed everything good out."

Meant to be. I used to think that about us. That we were meant to be. That the stars had aligned to bring us together. It never occurred to me that our fate might not be forever.