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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it?

It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. 😜

You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you.

They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

Nothing should be able to do that.
Especially not love. “


- Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones (The Sandman, #9)
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HeavenBesideYou · 56-60, F
So accurate. 💔

I didn’t think I’d ever be that person not open to love, yet here I am.
@HeavenBesideYou
So sorry you’re feeling this way. 😔

Love has its risks, good and bad.

When we take a chance on love, we get the opportunity to experience a different version of ourselves. More alive, more aware.

But there is also the risk of allowing ourselves to be vulnerable to another person. They may not do it on purpose, but they can still break our hearts.

We just hope to find a way to pick up those pieces of heart together to make it whole again.
HeavenBesideYou · 56-60, F
@CookieCrumbs Do you think we’re ever truly whole again? When we truly love someone, I feel like we give them a piece of ourselves that we never get back, regardless of the circumstances.
@HeavenBesideYou
We can be whole again, but not the same. That piece that we give them will never be part of us again.
The experience of truly loving someone changes us forever.

But if we allow ourselves time to heal, the heart recovers and that empty hollow spot is filled.

And when we are healed, we will find that we can love again. The heart functions like it should.
HeavenBesideYou · 56-60, F
@CookieCrumbs I’ll take your word for it, but honestly I’m not really interested in loving again at this point in my life.