What Should I Know?

I’ll answer first:
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞:
When I can’t give a detailed emotional response right away, it’s not because I’m hiding something—It’s because it takes time for me to feel my thoughts through enough to understand what they are. After that, it takes more time to think of the right words to get this complex soup of thoughts and emotions in my head out to a human language that I can then give someone else clearly enough so they understand my thoughts accurate.

The women who’ve known this about me—and gave me the grace to work through it—have been loved for it in ways I cannot describe in words.

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