Travelling home via tram, wondering again about SMF and how he's doing and how he could possibly be feeling about me. All thoughts had negative overtones.
Then, in a microsecond, as we passed felled trees in the botanical gardens, I reframed my situation: each second that passes without hearing from him is a second of him being readier to love me, fully.
I've got to trust that his absence is time well spent and that I haven't been abandoned. There may be a greater payoff in store.