queengreendown:

Love doesn’t need to make me reckless. Love should make me calmer and wiser over time. This has been a learning experience. Sometimes you don’t know your boundaries, and you have to grow them at a moment’s notice. Don’t let anyone penalize you for the thorns you’ve sprouted. New knowledge transforms us all accordingly. I know more about myself now than ever before. It’s taken everyone I’ve ever tried to love to get me here. But getting it wrong still has its pleasures and rewards. I am soft in old places, hard in new ones. I am releasing all the shame and trusting the ways I’ve changed.