Don’t chase after the affection of people who make you feel like you’re difficult to love. Not from parents, not from partners, not from friends. You can’t fill up someone with your love in the hopes that it will give them enough to share a little with you. People who truly love you will not make you beg for it.
Also, you don’t Earn love. Trust, respect, admiration: those things you can earn. Love is freely given. It doesn’t end when someone is upset with you, and you don’t have to prove you deserve it.
shoutout to AO3 authors who write 100k fics for free while juggling mental illness, academic burnout, 3 jobs, and a deep-rooted need to fix fictional people.
