Came across this gem from the great Hanif Kureishi —
"One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood."
And I thought: someone else’s childhood and also one’s own.
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You know that to love is both to swim and to drown. You know to love is to be a whole, partial, a joint, a fracture, a heart, a bone. It is to bleed and heal. It is to be in the world, honest. It is to place someone next to your beating heart, in the absolute darkness of your inner, and trust they will hold you close. To love is to trust, to trust
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Both of us grew up with one parent whose unconditional love wasn’t enough to shield us from the damage of their narcissistic partners. And as a result, we grew around the shadows they gave us, walking around like open wounds looking for any excuse to turn a spark into a flame.
JL Seegars • Restore Me: The New Haven Series (Book #1)
Most people think the way they react in relationships is about the present moment.
A tone of voice. A missed text. A look that feels just a little too cold. But what really gets stirred up is older than that. It’s the childhood stuff. The old stories. The feelings you learned to tuck away and pretend don’t affect you... See more
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