When Love Breaks You Open

True intimacy begins where your defenses end.

If you want true intimacy —
if you want to feel truly loved and seen by a man —
let him see you.
Let him enter you.
Let him break you open.

Let him touch the layers you have so carefully guarded.
Let him pierce them, as he enters you.

Scream. Cry.
Face the agony you’ve stored in the hidden caverns of your being.
Let him in.

And when it hurts — don’t blame him.
He is not the one hurting you.
He is only touching the cold, hard walls you built around your pain.

Thank him for bringing your tears back to the surface —
where the wind can dry them,
where they can become nourishment
for wildflowers to grow again.

And then… stay.