2025.01.DisappearingMoment: Demonstrating My Love

Beth was a committed vegetarian when we started dating, had been for years. I was several years in, too. And I had cut out dairy and eggs a couple of years earlier. Vegans were less common then. People asked me about it. I worried that my choice made them feel inconvenienced or judged. I looked for inoffensive explanations. I liked that being vegan required discipline. I needed more discipline in…