So Here I Am, Stuck. Stuck Between Being Afraid To Love You And Wanting To Love You. You Are The First

So here I am, stuck. Stuck between being afraid to love you and wanting to love you. You are the first person I’ve ever felt this way about and I know this is going to ruin me.

I can’t stop falling for you.

8 Reasons why Relationships End

1. Different values, dreams and goals

2. Different levels of commitment/ hopes and expectations for the relationship

3. Being too incompatible/ having few interests in common

4. Dishonesty/ having secrets

5. Lack of trust / betraying trust

6. Imbalance in emotional needs/ level of support both wanted and given

7. Communication problems

8. Being unloving, disrespectful, rude, uncaring, unforgiving or mean.

“You’re everywhere. Except right here. And it hurts.” - Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

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“But if they were truly in love with you they would’ve fought for you. But they didn’t. And sadly that means you loved them more than they loved you.”

“We often confuse love for a warm glow we sense in our bellies and as something we can offer and withdraw, like a cat who comes and goes at its pleasure. It’s easy for us to extend love toward those who are lovable, but loving people and situations that are not to our liking isn’t so easy. We give our love “unconditionally,” but when we don’t receive what we feel we deserve, we withdraw it. We then reinvest our love in a new person or situation that we think will give us a better return, but we find it difficult to maintain when we don’t feel recognized or acknowledged. If things don’t work out the way we want them to, we too readily exchange our loving feelings for hatred and resentment. Our initial excitement over a new job, for instance, may sour and become disappointment and bitterness. When we’ve been jilted by a lover, the intense, starry-eyed passion of infatuation can turn into loathing so great that it consumes us. To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something you barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.”

— Alberto Villoldo, The Four Insights     (via spirituallyminded)