This was well-written and I enjoyed reading it. It's always tempting in stories without happy endings to ascribe fault. But to ascribe fault is to ascribe moral

This was well-written and I enjoyed reading it. It's always tempting in stories without happy endings to ascribe fault. But to ascribe fault is to ascribe morality, that one person or the other did something wrong. But nobody anything wrong here. Just two people with different expectations and learned behaviors that just didn't match up. One thing I learned recently is that there was zero concept of adolescence before modern times. Until around a few hundred years ago, once you hit around 13, you were considered an adult. Louis XV was crowned king of France at 13 after a regency that began when his father died, he was 5. We should celebrate the ability to make mistakes in life. We didn't always have it.