The Dying Seconds

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The hardest thing isn't watching it fall apart. It's knowing you're the one who has to walk away.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've spent eight years loving Sean Thompson. But lately I can feel him slipping through my fingers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's the captain of the Snowballs a legend on the ice and closing in on the end of his career whether he's ready to admit it or not.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I want a future-marriage a family a home. We always thought we'd build that in Calgary but now my father's health is failing and I need to go home. Not just for a visit-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>for good</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. But every time I bring it up he acts like we haven't spent every Sunday dinner at his parents' house for our entire relationship.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then the announcement drops: a huge pot of money for the winners of the Elite League Rose Cup. Now I'm watching him fight like hell to win a tournament when he won't do the same for me. I love him. But I can't be the only one in this relationship with elbows up.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some things don't come back after the final whistle.</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I'm terrified we're one of them.</em></p>