The Love You Keep Begging For Is the Love You Never Gave Yourself

There is a quiet humiliation in begging for love.

Not the dramatic kind.
Not the kind where you fall to your knees.

The subtle kind.

The kind where you over explain yourself so they will not leave.
The kind where you lower your standards but call it compromise.
The kind where you say, “I understand,” when you actually feel abandoned.
The kind where you accept …