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Poisons are remedies. Remedies are poison
✨Dainty: Are flowers a nice gift to give someone?
✨Opaque: Do you wear any jewelry?
✨Juniper: Have you ever laid in a field of flowers?
✨Chamomile: Do you like tea?
✨Lavish: What would you do with a million dollars?
✨Palilalia: What word do you have trouble saying?
✨Whimsical: Favorite fairytale?
✨Fluffy: Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
✨Quaint: Do you prefer the city or the country?
✨Glitter: Are you a big fan of makeup?
✨Rosé: Favorite drink?
✨Insomnia: What’s the longest amount of time you’ve stayed awake?
✨Wanderlust: Have you ever traveled outside of your country?
✨Daffodil: Do you like spring?
✨Gossamer: Favorite album?
✨Shimmer: Lipstick or lipgloss?
✨Kaleidoscope: Favorite color?
✨Tapestry: Do you like to decorate?
✨Honeysuckle: Do you ever go barefoot when you’re outside?
✨Galaxy: Are aliens real?
✨Luminous: Does you zodiac sign fit your personality?
✨Marine: Favorite sea animal?
✨Bubbly: Are you a nice person?
✨Aesthetic: Favorite word?
✨Nocturnal: Night or day?
✨Effervescent: What would make you happy right now?
@ gay and bi/pan boys:
💐🌼🌻🥀🌹🌷🌸🌺
here’s some flowers from one of your lesbian sisters have a great day
🍦🍬🍭🍪🍰🍫🍩
Thank you we love them, here’s some yummy snacks for you gay and bi/pan girls from one of your gay bros
im feeling mlm & wlw solidarity in this chili’s tonight
there are four types of people:
neon signs, biting your lip, adrenalin, late night talks, vintage vinyls, raspberries
journals and stationery, whispers, feeling sleepy, browsing wikipedia for 2 hours, streets in foreign cities, sculptures
daisies, the sound of laughter, pressed flowers, genuine compliments, oversized sweaters
marble, sarcasm, old books, lightning, skyscrapers, crystals, proving them wrong
Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.
Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.
Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.
Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.
I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.
Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.
But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.
Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.