The Distance You Keep and What It’s Protecting (Part 5)
Fear of intimacy doesn’t disappear. The distance shifts — and what becomes possible inside it is different from what you expected.
Fear of intimacy doesn’t disappear. The distance shifts — and what becomes possible inside it is different from what you expected.
The fear of getting close to someone doesn’t go off when things go wrong. It goes off when things go well. This is what’s actually happening.
You read the text. You know what you want to say. You put the phone face-down anyway. This is pulling away from someone you like.