📌 Because needing was never safe. Depending was never rewarded. And hoping only led to disappointment. So now, as an adult, you say you’re “independent,” but what you really learned was how to survive without support. There is nothing admirable about how much you had to carry alone. You weren’t strong by nature. You were strong because no one showed up. And healing doesn’t mean becoming weaker. It means finally allowing yourself to be held in the ways you never were. You don’t have to prove you