I wanted to like this story more. But it felt like Ray spent a really long time making excuses for kips behavior. And the way Kip acted was pretty awful towards Ray.  Refusing to acknowledge him in public as his fiancé, allowing their neighbor to believe they were just roommates and constantly erasing Ray’s existence in his life was pretty awful to read and pretty awful to hear Ray excusing all the time. I understand the internalized homophobia that Kip grew up with, but I think it should’ve been a discussion that they had much earlier in their relationship. Because that kind of behavior is really hurtful.