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I can’t make you love me.

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I can’t make you love me

And more importantly, I won’t.

I will love you with all of my being, but I will not pursue you.

I will only accept what you freely give, with no prompting, no begging, no guilting and no convincing.


I will not teach you to love me. I will be patient with you while you strive to love my complicated nature, but I will not make you strive or ask you to.

I will not withhold my love for you, but I will give it freely to the extent that you give yours to me.


I will not demand to be priority in your life. I will not ask you to move things aside for me or make time or space for me. I will not ask you to give or do anything that you do not desire to.


I will ask none of these things of you.

I will love you and I will match your energy.

If you fade, I will let you.

And if you don’t, then I will know your love is true.

For love is a choice.

 
 
 

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© 2023 by Candice Neu. Photo Credits: Tino Duvick; Lucas Stein; Raul Anaya; Tiffany Cassius;

Xavier Visage; Arianne Martin; Sam Hoffman.

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