Changing Perspectives

Tag: #emotionalintimacy

  • I’m Tired of Earning Love

    I’m Tired of Earning Love

    “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 Boy Who Wanted to Be Chosen

    The Boy Who Wanted to Be Chosen

    What if our deepest desire isn’t to be attractive, but to be chosen? A personal reflection on trauma, self-worth, and learning to rewrite the stories I’ve carried about myself.

  • The Intimacy Switch: Why I Need Desire to Meet Me, Not Just See Me?

    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.…