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The guarded girl will never fall in love until she’s 100% sure you’re ready to catch her.

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That’s why your leaving hurt, not because she was so deeply infatuated with you, but because you made her feel like she wasn’t good enough for you to stay.

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You choose to let go when she’s fighting to hold on. You hurt her because you’re just as scared as she is.

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The kind of guy to make the guarded girl finally fall in love feels safe, and she hates that at first, because she’s so used to falling for people who make her feel daring, like she’s taking an adventurous risk by giving them a chance.

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We push people away when we get too attached, because seeing the walls that we’ve built around our worn out and battered hearts crumble slowly scares us.

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She’s scared you’re going to leave because that’s what she knows, that’s what’s familiar.

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I am not going to let you all the way in. I don’t know how to.

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You start to find reasons to dislike them, you convince yourself they aren’t right for you and you push and push and push until they leave, just so you can prove to yourself that everyone really does leave, even though deep down you know it isn’t true.

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She comes off as being cold and insensitive, but I promise, she’s not. You see, when someone loves so immensely deep, to ultimately get their heart broken, everything begins to shift.

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You were the first person I had to pretend to not care about. The first, ‘let’s keep this casual,’ I had to fake being okay with.