when i say i hate cops i mean your cop family member specifically
I think one of the hardest things I’ve had to learn is that the beginning of love tells you very little about what kind of partner someone will be.
It’s easy to love someone when they’re still new to you. When everything is exciting, when you’re both showing each other your softest edges, when there hasn’t been enough time for disappointment to settle in.
The real test comes later.
When the person you love becomes complicated.
When they’re sick.
When they’re struggling.
When they disappoint you.
When you see their flaws clearly and they see yours.
When life stops being romantic and starts requiring patience, compromise, forgiveness and repair.
Because when I love someone, their imperfections don’t automatically subtract from that love.
I can be angry with you.
I can be disappointed in you.
I can be frustrated with you.
I can question whether we’re compatible.
I can dislike something you did and still love the person standing in front of me.
Love, to me, was never about finding someone who remained exactly as I imagined them in the beginning.
It was about seeing the whole person once the idealized version disappeared and deciding whether we could grow through what remained.
Of course there are limits. Love should never require you to abandon yourself or stay somewhere that continually hurts you.
But I’ve realized I don’t want a love whose first response to imperfection is emotional withdrawal.
I want the kind that can survive being human.
Because anyone can adore the beautiful beginning.
I want someone who still knows how to love me when I am complicated, imperfect, frightened, struggling, and no longer new.
And I want to love them the same way.
i think it's poetic that my partner reblogged this right before comforting me from a meltdown
this is gospel to me
another year, another small sun tucked into my pocket.
I will create a beautiful life no matter what
the woke left: mathematics is kinda nonbinary because there are more than two numbers
real, conservative americans: math is only two numbers




