He showed up to a Thursday 9am Zoom call and someone on the team said — out loud, unmuted — "is everything okay at home?" The Slack thread after that meeting got screenshotted by three separate people and is now living rent-free on two different relationship subreddits.

To be clear: nothing was wrong at home. Something was, in fact, very right. He bought flowers on a random Wednesday for the first time in four years. His coworkers noticed that too.