Can we talk about how exhausting it is to be emotionally intelligent in situations that don't deserve your understanding. To see everyone's perspective when nobody is extending the same courtesy to yours. To regulate your reactions while others express everything without filter or consequence. To be the bigger person so consistently that nobody even acknowledges it requires effort. Emotional intelligence is a gift.
not dating to marry, not dating to break up, but a secret third thing (dating to be with someone you’re truly compatible with, to travel, experience life, laugh a lot and share something real for as long as it feels right, whether that’s a season or a lifetime)
I love people who actually know me.
The ones who understand my personality, my tone, my sense of humor… How I talk and what I mean. People I don’t have to over explain myself to.
Once i mentally separate myself from a situation you'll never get the same me. I'm somebody you gotta do right by the first time because my mental detachment doesn't allow reconnection. Especially because at my age its hard to make sense out of another grown person trying to play