A Letter to the One Who Thinks Love Requires Shrinking

from Letters From the Grown-Up Self · host Lilya Sabatier

Some of us learned that love required making ourselves smaller.This is a letter to the one who became very good at accommodating, adapting, and needing less — and who is quietly exhausted by it. Having a self inside a relationship is not a threat to it. This letter makes that case. Listen slowly.

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