I’ve been thinking a lot about my expectations and needs around emotional support… but I’m trying to do this thinking with more transparency. Transparency between my partner and myself. Doesn’t always work when any need for emotional support that I bring up is met with “old marriage” bias by my partner.
I need someone interested in building something that can weather storms and be flexible to last a lifetime. Not something that’s a mask we put on for ourselves and others. I want the ugly. I want the beautiful. I want the painful. I want the joyous. I want it all.
I want my partner to want the same. If he doesn’t… then it really doesn’t matter what I want, does it?
The girl who mistook her chair as a pulpit for the soles of her shoes 