“An honorable human relationship … in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love,’” Adrienne Rich memorably wrote, “is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”

Finding room to both accept I will never have a relationship like this again (if I’m changing this will be impossible) and still I miss you (who you were - and because you are also changing - who you will be)

“Our desire for playful connection doesn’t disappear after childhood. For some people, it gets redirected to romance. Couples mimic intense childhood friendships by spending free-flowing time together, marking the relationship with symbolic tokens such as rings, and developing a miniature culture, complete with inside jokes and a shared vernacular. But celebrating adult friendships in this way is rarer—and harder.” - Rhaina Cohen

do you sit in silence with your friends?

silence is the new rebellion

We run from love because love is truth, and to be in the presence of infinite truth is something only very few are ready for. It cuts you open energetically, it dismantles all the stories you hide behind, it rips you open until every single part of you dies that is not in service to the divine.