Emotional labor

john | Nov. 21, 2024, 4:44 p.m. An attempt

This has to be the most taxing labor that exists.  The one you throw into a relationship with a partner.  It feels like it's all or nothing, and in fact it should be.  If you truly want to be with some one why wouldn't you want to be with all of them and vise versa.

It's why betrayal feels so brutal.  The amount of work you put in to have some one think about you and go "na" or worse, do the action and not even think of you at all.

Destruction really.  It's a weird feeling too when you sense that you'll never understand, but you just know.  You get destroyed day in and day out and it does nothing.  Each day comes again.

Still it lingers.  Before it was a crater almost triangle shaped missing.  Now its something else, but still it lingers.

Like clockwork.

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