
I’ve gotten into the habit of writing you notes. Not love notes… just my thoughts when I miss you. When I’m anxious, when I’m lonely, or just filled with so much excitement to see you. I hope you can read them someday and know just how loved you are.
there is nothing i want more than to have your attention and your heart. id like to have a chance with you, if only you’ll let me
patience has never been a friend of mine but, for you, ill wait for as long as i must. for you, ill linger and, in the meantime, i will love myself so that i might love you even better. for you, always for you
i really hope what they say is true. i hope you adore me just the same. i want to work with you. you make me want to be better so that i might be worth your time
Saw a post earlier like “get a partner who’s obnoxiously affectionate life is too short to pretend you don’t care!” and I’d like to say that as someone who has CONSTANTLY exhaustingly intense emotions and expresses them tirelessly, the contrast of someone loving me with a sort of quiet, calm stability that peaks in bursts is quite nice.
It provides a level of calm I have never once in my life been able to achieve. It is soft, safe, and predictable. It provides a much more rational foil to my more extreme negative swings. Like I’ll be mid episode and she’ll just calmly be like “that’s stupid and here’s why” and once I’ve calmed down she is usually right.
Sometimes I don’t need some who can match my intensity. Sometimes “I love you and I’m here and not going anywhere” is enough. Plenty, even. I know she loves me because she is soft, gentle, and tender when I need it. She has not left, despite me often feeling like I no longer deserve it. I do not need a lover who will match my overwhelming emotional ferocity. I need a lover who is safe and stable and perhaps might surprise me intermittently with a more overt or traditionally overwhelming show of affection.
And what an incredible honor it is when it does peak up like that. When the emotion bubbles over and strikes with a more overt form of sappy tenderness from someone who may to most seem like they may never give it. What a very great deal it means.
i want someone to love and call me pretty and kiss me like im something special and hold me and squeeze me like is it that hard to ask for
(pls hit me up)
I’ve been the archer
I’ve been the prey
Who could ever leave me, darling?
But who could stay?
The Archer, Taylor Swift