Wiggle Like a Fish in Love

To me, healthy love doesn’t look like a cycle of panic and grand gestures. It looks like a steady rhythm of small, ordinary evidences. It’s the regular heartbeats of showing each other we’re each’s other in all the small ways. Not a dozen roses because I’m “in trouble,” but materializing back at the cart while…

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…

I don’t make good memes—I make ones that make me laugh. … Maybe you’re not missing.Maybe you’re just waiting for someone who sees your shape and understands how you fit.

We used to sit here.A summer and a lifetime ago.She hasn’t been back.Today, I returned.Beauty doesn’t go away when someone does.But it echoes differently.

I put the lid back on the peanut butter without thinking about it.Didn’t sigh. Didn’t narrate it to myself.Didn’t analyze it.Did the thing and moved on.Cleaned the spoon and got on with the day. Just noticed afterwards—Huh. I’m probably okay today.

For the woman whose whole body exhales when she’s finally touched with care—This is what that care might feel like.A man who:– sees her tension before she names it– learns the pressure her back actually asked for– holds without fixing– speaks through presence, not performance– and just wants to make her week meltIf this meant…