when you feel like too much work 🧩🤍

Maybe you worry loving you comes with too many instructions. Be patient here. Don't joke about that. Reassure me sometimes. Give me space when I freeze. Understand that I might go quiet when overwhelmed 🧩 And then you think, 'Who would want to deal with all this?'

But everyone comes with instructions 🤍 Some people just haven't read their own manual yet. Having wounds doesn't make you impossible. It means care may need to be more thoughtful in certain places. That is not shameful. You are allowed to be a person with context. You are allowed to need gentleness where life was rough. Of course, your healing is yours. You can't hand someone your pain and say, 'Fix it.' But the right people won't resent learning how to love you well. They'll appreciate honesty. They'll offer their instructions too. Love is not finding someone with no fragile parts. It's learning how to hold each other's fragile parts without making them feel like burdens 🌙