When you became the support act

“Your partner has been applying for jobs for months, and you've been deep in it with them — reviewing cover letters, talking through every rejection, rearranging your weekends around their stress. Tonight they get an interview for something promising and want to walk through it together. You sit down to help, and it's a good conversation. But somewhere in the middle of it, you remember that you were supposed to call your best friend back tonight — the third time you've pushed it off this week.”