'how do you know you love a person?'

how? you know they love you, but don't feel or understand it.

harmed and unable to love. we want to believe love exists, and we wait. we don't search for it, we don't initiate the search, because we're too harmed to try. we wait for someone with outstretched arms, to tell us we can fall safely into it. we're all capable of loving another person with all we can, regardless of how battered we are, and we want to.

it seems like it shouldn't take another person to convince us we can. everyone is hurt, some more so than the others. it takes more to give to a person who is plastered with wounds, so we simply give what we can. don't focus on how much the other person needs to fill you up in order for you to feel safe.

simply give what you can, simply that.