One day you are waiting. Adjusting. Explaining yourself less. Needing their mood to decide your peace. Forgetting what your own inner voice sounds like when it is not reacting to someone else. And this is what makes love so confusing. The heart wants to merge. The soul wants to remain whole. Somewhere inside, you know love should not feel like disappearing. But you may also know how easy it is to call disappearance devotion. To call self-abandonment loyalty. To call emotional dependency depth. The real question is not how to love less. It is how to love fully without handing your center away.
