Relationships and love aren’t hard, we make them hard. Sometimes with the same person over and over again and sometimes with a different person each time.
Somehow we know when someone is different. We get a different feeling.
This feeling brings fear because we aren’t used to feeling this way. We always have this thought in the back of our minds that we might be wrong or that were just going to get hurt again.
At first, everything they do is compared to others in our past. The things they say, the way they carry themselves, the way they act.
We see some similarities to other people in our past and this may just be because we are looking for them or it could just be a normal human trait.
But soon you realize that they aren’t the people in your past. They are a completely different person.
It takes time for you to open up to them. You give very vague information because you don’t want them to get too close until you’re sure.
Eventually, you see that they actually care and you begin to slowly and cautiously open up and let them in and it feels so nice to finally have someone to talk to.
You don’t take them to meet your family at the start. You don’t bring them around until you’re sure they won’t become just another nameless face of someone who came around for a short while.
But finally, someone comes around and shows you how things can be different. Not everyone is going to hurt you, not everyone is going to break your heart.
Someone shows you that just because things are going well does not mean that the world is going to turn on you. They show you that it’s okay to be happy and you finally just go with it.