You can tell a lot about a person by the way they speak of love, especially when they say they do not want it, or that having a partner will become a blockage to the life they are meant to build. More often than not, it is an ideology of love constructed from trauma, disappointment, fear, and the slow humiliation of believing that what they truly desire may never arrive.
Everyone wants love. At the end of the day, when the world has gone quiet and you are lying in your bed with nothing left to perform, to prove, to distract yourself with, the body still seeks warmth, connection, recognition, and the unbearable tenderness of being known by someone who chooses to stay. People deny this and call it freedom because they have started thinking that hopelessness is enlightenment.
Love does not block growth. Love reveals where growth is still required. It will not always arrive as softness, ease, and gilded reassurance. Sometimes it will come as confrontation, rupture, discomfort, patience, repair, and the excruciating demand to remain present with another human being when every wounded part of you wants to run. You have to stay long enough to discover what the love is trying to make of you.
The right love gives you a centre from which you can enter the world with greater courage. You become more free to explore, build, create, risk, and become, because you are no longer moving through life with that quiet, subterranean ache of wondering whether anyone truly loves you, or whether all your striving is only an elaborate attempt to distract yourself from the absence of home.
When you are loved properly, the question of what you are working so hard for begins to answer itself. You are building for a life that can hold love, protect it, honour it, and make it easier for both of you to exist inside the world.
Those who have truly loved know this intimately. Love is one of the most brutal, sacred, and transformative forces through which you truly grow.
When you truly love someone, you have to learn the art of waiting. Love is not about rushing, demanding, or forcing things to fall into place. Sometimes the person you love needs time to heal, to grow, or to simply find their way back to themselves. And if your love is real, you'll give them that space without making them feel guilty for it. Waiting doesn't mean putting your life on hold, it means keeping faith in a bond that is strong enough to survive distance, silence, and time. The love that is meant for you will never be lost, it will return when both hearts are ready.
My therapist told me:
People's negative traits are usually the opposite of their love languages.
Not asking for help.....Acts of Service
Isolating…..Quality Time
Avoidance……..Physical Touch
Impulsive Shopping......Gift Giving
Shutting down .….Words of Affirmation
how do i get one of them fake corporate jobs where i work remotely and get paid for responding to one email a day and having a laptop on with outlook or whatever open
High vibrational places:
The beach
The forest
Gardens
Kitchens
Small farms
Docks
Libraries
Low vibrational places:
Theme parks
The zoo
Casinos
All inclusive resorts
Cruise ships