Set the lotus down. Walk away from the storyline that confuses damage with depth. There is a kind of love that opens without breaking first. And you are not too ruined to deserve it. What’s a “broken–bound” relationship you’ve survived—or written yourself out of? Let’s talk in the comments. 🌸

But passion doesn’t leave you feeling lain roughly. Passion doesn’t make you wonder if tenderness was ever part of the deal.

So if you recognize this lotus. If your ribs still ache from being lain roughly. If you’ve been binding someone else’s broken pieces and calling it devotion—please stop.

We rewrite the narrative: He’s just intense. She’s just broken like me. At least he came back. At least she tied the pieces—even if she tied them wrong.