The Person Who Loves You
The person who loves you yearns for connection and intimacy
The person who loves you will make an effort to see you and let you show up for who you are.
The person who loves you will be the most tender and adorable, but also the most courageous and compassionate. The person who loves you will be with you when your soul is bleeding from the cruelty of this world.
Someone who is soft; who isn’t afraid to show how powerful gentleness can be.
They will be fully honest about their intentions, because communication is very important to them and they want you to be in the clear.
Someone you can really trust and rely on.
A person you can lean on — and who can lean on you.
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” — Honore de Balzac
The person who loves you will relish in your energy and connection, and relinquish any judgement. They will harness the power of empathy & compassion, and authenticity, so that they can connect with you while they are also in attunement to themself: their inner world.
The person who loves you will hug you with the most innocent and sincere joy. They will comfort themself gently if and when you are not around and they need to self-soothe their vulnerable inner child, so they are not dependent on you in that aspect, which is also a very healthy trait.
The person who loves you will make being vulnerable look effortless, because they have a deep connection to their self.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzi
The person who loves you yearns for connection and intimacy. And they know to receive those invaluable gifts, they need to earn the trust of you.
The person who loves you may look fragile and broken from the outside, but they are still fiercely fighting as the warrior that they are. They are enduring and persistent and go to battle against the demons inside themself that are trying to shatter all of who they have so ferociously fought to become.
The person who loves you will instill a profound peace inside you when you are with them, like a candle rekindling the light into the dark.
The person who loves you wants to hear & see you, especially the messy, layered and quirky parts of you that no one has ever really been curious about.
The idiosyncracies that spill from your soul and your weary heart, every day you wake up and get up.
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — The Buddha
Simply, the person who loves you will dance with you the dance of authentic connection and intimacy.
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