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I cannot heal you, I can only love you. And sometimes that is simply not enough

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Love is not a power play, not roles and dynamics and shoes you must fill. You don’t need to become something better just to have someone’s affection, even if the other person’s intentions are pure. And you can’t make someone change for your reasons, or even the right reasons.

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You deserve the love you keep giving away.

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With you, I realize it’s not about what you need. It’s not about who you want me to be. It’s not about molding myself to fit into your arms. It’s not about making you happy at the cost of losing myself.

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You want to be the hero who saves him, so he can love you despite his messiness.

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Sometimes you can’t be someone’s savior because they need to fix themselves, love themselves, and learn to love you.

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I seem to make it my duty to figure out a solution to their issues. I almost feel like I’m responsible for fixing their lives and have an inability to separate their feelings from myself.

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The world is a terribly beautiful place, full of terribly beautiful and beautifully terrible people, and she will learn, one day, that the only one of them she will ever be able to fully save is herself.