Love is love… right? But love is actually the easy part, understanding each other, that’s where the real work begins.
I realised something fascinating in recent years. Two people can genuinely love each other and still walk away feeling unseen, unappreciated or even unloved and not because the love wasn’t there, but because it arrived in a language the other person didn’t naturally understand. Read more
Somewhere along the way, we started confusing love with fusion. We celebrate couples who do everything together. They share hobbies, friendships, passwords, opinions, social media accounts and sometimes it feels like they even share a single personality. People call it relationship goals. To be honest, in my early twenties, I probably would have called it that too. Back then, I thought the closer two people became, the stronger their love must be. It took me years and a fair amount of life to realize that closeness and losing yourself are not the same thing. Read more