If this resonates with you at all PLEASE, for your benefit, go read this tweet thread on “fawning”
Oh my god i finally have a word for it….
There’s such enormous power in naming and understanding things, isn’t there 🙏
Oh shit
The tweet author also made this into an article, available here.
Thank you for sharing that link!
Lots of peeps on this post have asked things like “so what do I do about this?” which the twitter thread gets into but I know many will find the article more readable and it expands further and has additional resources. Check it out!
Also, when you learn about love in a chaotic and tenuous environment, you expect to find it that way in the world. For a long time, love for me was the thing you had to hold onto with teeth and toenails; never easy, never uncontested.
Tori