It was as if he was psychically analyzing my life. That gay therapist that I follow on Instagram posted about The need to handle conflict directly with the people you have it with. It is never a good idea to bring in mutual friends for a second or third opinion. All that does is build further walls between other people who did absolutely nothing wrong.

I know that, over the coming months, my conflicts with Kevin Grolton and his now fiancé Will come to ahead. Michael still sees them both regularly, and he will wonder why we can no longer all hang out as a group. I’ve been turning over in my mind how I would handle it, some more directly addressing the situation with Michael than others.

But now I realize that the best move when confronted with the situation is to say have lost faith in my long pending conflict reach resolution. The only way Michael will play intermediator is just to let me know if Kevin is open to speaking directly about the issue. Then and only then, well I open myself up in a social way .to him again.