Hearts & Distances

Love, longing, closeness, and separation — the ache and the warmth that come with being connected to others. Words for the people we hold close, the ones we miss, the love that changes us, and the distances that teach us something about the heart.

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Support Isn’t Agreement

Support doesn’t always look like agreement. Sometimes, to support your loved ones, you want to go against them, especially when you can see that the path they choose will lead them only to terrible situations. But this kind of support is not normal because most of the time, support feels…

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Quiet Damage

Many years after it happened, one fine day, you will understand how a person can be kind, loving, and generous, yet still be harmful. How “who they were” and “what they did” were so different that it left you confused. Now, you can call them toxic or narcissistic, but were…

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The Fall of Faith

You fall in love when you have faith in someone, when you believe they’ll catch you. And when they do, it doesn’t hurt. Falling in love never hurts. But when they don’t… It hurts so deeply that you start fearing the fall itself. Read this next: My Heart Aches for…

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Almost Loved

I know it’s almost impossible for someone to fall in love with the way I think instead of the way I look. It’s almost impossible for someone to wait patiently until I feel safe enough to open up. It’s almost impossible for someone to reach beyond the walls I’ve built…

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