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What Love Really Means to You?

Freedom or golden cage

Adalea · 2026-04-29 20:22 · 630 claps · 1.6 min read paywalled
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What Love Really Means to You?

Freedom or golden cage

Photo by Charles Postiaux on Unsplash

Photo by Charles Postiaux on Unsplash

Why is it still hurting you when days and years have passed that seemed like centuries?

Why something you never really wanted to happen still hurts you so badly? Because you knew from the beginning such love had no chance to survive.

Why does the mere sight of that face of love create pain in your chest

and the desire to run away somewhere far away even though

you know you have nowhere to go, because

you can run away from everyone except yourself.

Why is it so hard to admit to yourself you loved someone

you didn’t want to love?

Because you knew in advance it didn’t make sense and lead anywhere.

Why is love sometimes so hopeless and yet so wild and so beautiful in the same time?

Because that’s the only thing in this world that you can’t plan because

it just happens by itself.

Why you are so afraid of love?

Because love, like a wild river, sometimes knows to destroy everything in front of it.

Love makes you so weak and powerless sometimes that

you can’t control the same.

Because no one likes to feel helpless and trapped in moments of the greatest happiness.

Because, you noticed as such strong and wild love has power to turn some women into ordinary housewives, maids who have only one desire to serve her husband.

But those poor woman don’t know when they surrender all their power into

the hands of love,

it usually turned its back on them.

Because over time, such women stop to resemble the person

a man fell in love with once upon a time.

When you look a little better around you,

you will notice many such once strong and powerful women,

who are now just pale copies of themselves.

In that moment, it will become crystal clear to you

why you are so afraid of love.

Setting healthy boundaries

Unfortunately, everything has its boundaries.

So,if you don’t set healthy boundaries in your relationship

at the very beginning,

something you once called unconditional love can easily turn into a golden cage from which there is no escape.

You have to love yourself first in order to be happy.

You must put yourself first and not last.

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