I want to tell you about a Tuesday night, about three years ago, when a woman I’d been seeing texted me at 11:47 p.m. after going dark for nineteen days. The message said: “hey you up?” And I felt happy. That’s the part that stops me, even now. Not relieved. Not vindicated. Happy. Like a [...] The post I grew up with parents who said they loved me but were never around, and the hardest part wasn’t the absence, it’s that I’ve spent my entire adult life mistaking inconsistency for love, choosing partners who disappear and reappear on their own schedule, and only now, at almost 40, am I realizing the pattern was set long before I had any say in it appeared first on Space Daily .
I grew up with parents who said they loved me but were never around, and the hardest part wasn’t the absence, it’s that I’ve spent my entire adult life mistaking inconsistency for love, choosing partners who disappear and reappear on their own schedule, and only now, at almost 40, am I realizing the pattern was set long before I had any say in it
