For several minutes there was silence, making me think at first that she had shut down on me, but I could see her typing something, something that looked like a long message. I waited for the response, but nothing came, and then I could see her typing again. When the message came through, it simply read, 'Well I am hurting too, but the way I handled it was just idiotic. Sorry.'

I was having trouble processing the conversation, on the one hand, Tamara shared the broken feeling I was experiencing and felt bad about it, and on the other she was the source of the pain even if unintentionally. Exactly...