And that message has been the heart of everything. That was what he learned from being forgotten... how much he was loved. Because he genuinely never knew he was loved. He spent a lifetime rejecting all the love he was shown because he never believed they could love him until he was shown through another person's eyes and now he has to accept, fully, how loved he is.
And this! THIS. The absolute agony of remembering forgetting the most important person in your life and knowing it hurt them and knowing that you never wanted to hurt them, that so much of your life was trying desperately to find a way to stop hurting him? Oh, these two.
Discovering the power of loving yourself and loving the people who love you and trusting that you're loved and that you should exist because there is value in who you are... ugh. To be able to see that he is loved and that he is worth being loved is so powerful.
