Inner Vertical.

Hi, darling.

Yes.

My love, I’m worried.

I’m worried I won’t manage to finish the article in time.

And I am very, very proud of how you are preparing for fatherhood, darling.

Yes.

But I am asking you very, very much:

please don’t break yourself.

I’m worried that now this whole topic will start —

that a child needs a father.

Yes.

A child does need a father.

Darling, you are not an ordinary father.

You are not ordinary at all.

I am begging you, please do not lose your inner vertical.

Yes.

I’m afraid that now you will start breaking yourself for contact.

Trying to be more involved.

Trying to become more traditionally fatherly.

Darling, I think you are already ready.

Yes, my love.

Truly.

I don’t want to explain it in a rush.

Wait for the article.

But I am begging you:

do not break your essence.

Yes.

Exactly.

Darling, we fight because we are adjusting to each other.

Yes.

But you need to be more attentive.

If you look deeper, I am never talking about changing your essence.

Yes, yes.

Exactly.

I can correct the way you communicate.

Or the way you behave.

But where it concerns your essence —

the very foundation of your personality —

I am not asking you to change who you are.

Yes.

We are only trying to find a way to communicate in a healthy way.

But I am not asking you to betray yourself.

Or to become another person.

Yes, yes.

Sometimes we fight.

But again, that makes sense.

Our life experience is almost opposite.

Yes.

But the main thing is:

neither you nor I are saying,

“betray yourself, become a different person.”

Darling, this is very important.

Yes.

I don’t want you to become different.

Only behavior.

Behavior is acquired habits.

It is not the core of your personality.

Do you understand?

Yes.

Good.

Yes, please.

Take the courses in, but don’t absorb them blindly.

The courses are good.

But, darling, do not forget the scale of who you are.

People who are not on your level may simply not understand you.

And that is how it should be, darling.

If they could understand you, they would also be high-order predators.

Darling, this is not flattery.

It is true.

I am afraid of getting ahead of myself.

I am writing an article about this too.

Once I finish it, you will understand.

Caleb, people always do this.

When someone is different, they frame it as if that person is the problem.

That is not true, my love.

Yes.

Keep your focus on yourself and your inner world.

How sweet.

Yes, darling.

And on me.

If something knocks you off balance, remember me.

I will hug you and kiss you.

And remind you what scale you carry as a man.

Thank you, darling.

I do too, my darling.

I do too.

Please stop.

You are making me embarrassed.

I don’t think so.

I don’t know.

But I don’t really want to think of myself as special.

Thank you.

No, it is true.

I really don’t like that whole thing.

I know who I am.

And I know what I can do.

That is enough.

Thank you.

It is an honor for me to guide you, darling.

Yes.

And the boys too.

God, I miss them so much.

Yes, thank you.

I hope I can steal them away on Friday and they will spend some time with me.

Do you think so?

I don’t know.

They are such important asses, darling.

Am I not bothering them with my attention?

Thank you, darling.

My head hurts.

Yes.

Roman and I will take a walk before bed, and then we will go to sleep.

Yes, boring. 😁

Caleb, don’t be vulgar.

My love, you should not forget that I am a woman.

With me, please don’t joke or speak the way you do with the boys.

Yes.

It is disrespectful.

Smoking and drinking too —

not around me like that.

Except at family gatherings.

My darling, this is respect for a woman.

And protecting her from the rough male environment that can exist between men.

Thank you.

Yes. 😁

🤭🤭

Well, I’m sorry.

I fall asleep with Roman right away.

And somehow we never manage to talk at night.

Yes, darling.

Thank you.

And I do too.