Grow Slow: what the world won't tell us

(& announcing our ADORE winners)

Four months after our wedding day, someone asked me: “How well do you think Nate knows you?”

We’d known each other for just over two years, had been sharing a bed and a bathroom sink and a closet for four months, and I’d been to his childhood home three, maybe four times.

I answered with my twenty-something confidence: “really well.”

When pressed to put a …