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[maxxie-or-smth]

you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life

[anxeious]

[rozieramati]

[crimsolyn]

everyone needs to free themselves. there’s a lot of things you just simply don’t have to deal with.

[jainsty-deactivated20210507]

sometimes it’s just nice to receive the same energy you put out

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

[yourstorai]

[horizontalfall]

“One of the strongest feelings I remember from my childhood is, precisely, of being humiliated; of being knocked about by words, acts, or situations. Isn’t it a fact that children are always feeling deeply humiliated in their relations with grown-ups and each other? I have a feeling children spend a good deal of their time humiliating one another. Our whole education is just one long humiliation, and it was even more so when I was a child. One of the wounds I’ve found hardest to bear in my adult life has been the fear of humiliation, and the sense of being humiliated. Every time I read a review, for instance — whether laudatory or not — this feeling awakes. To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure.”

— Ingmar Bergman; Interviews with Ingmar Bergman by Stig Bjorkman

[remanence-of-love]

[unit-02]

[thoughtkick]

“The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.”

— Carol Gilligan

[fairycosmos]

what’s the big deal about being avoidant. like ohhhh im dodging the bullet quick everyone lets mock the bullet dodger

[capacity2]

The day u become the bullet after a lifetime of being the bullet dodger the irony will break u

[lv0009]

it is so upsetting listening to so many males talk about all of the times they have gone on road trips alone and slept in their cars alone or on the side of the road, or travelled overseas alone and slept on the floor of strangers homes or in parks or at hostels and they appear to have such freedom in that they are able to be alone in ways that females, unfortunately, cannot…and there is an ignorance surrounding this in that these boys never seem to comprehend just how fortunate they are that strange people and unfamiliar places and the dark of night are not their enemies but rather exciting, promising things

[thoughtkick]

“I don’t know if I like you or love you, want you or need you. All I know is I love the feelings I get when I’m with you.”

— Unknown

[petaltexturedskies]

Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. III: 1939-1944

[decompose1]

sorry i don't write men. yeah idk i just can't get into their headspace.... i don't know how to act like a man lol. idk how men feel. do they even have the same feelings as us? that's crazyyyy lol. still tho idk how id do it im not educated enough to write them sorry. you wouldn't want me to write a man badly would you.... im afraid of messing up and those angry men online to shout at me they're so aggressive

[kissmyneckandcallmebaby]

Okay, I lied. I like flowers I don’t have to ask for. I like dates I don’t have to plan. I like reassurance, love letters, notes, long texts and updates. I like acts of service, physical touch, quality time and small surprises. I like being loved loudly.