We’re often taught that once we realize a relationship isn’t working, we’re supposed to fix it, discuss it, or leave. But what happens when you understand someone completely, no one is necessarily wrong, and you’re still hurt?
“I used to think love was measured by how much I was willing to carry. Now I’m learning to ask a different question: Does this love also know how to carry me?” I think I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to earn love. Not intentionally. Not consciously. But in the little ways. By…
The body that keeps score taught me how not to disappear when love arrives. I spent years searching for desire. Now at 30, I’m learning how not to lose myself when it finds me. Some of us don’t learn how to love by being met. We learn by reaching, and reaching again, into empty air.…
