As He Should

There is an understated power in being loved properly, not through grandiose displays or emotionally performative gestures, but through the quiet consistency of a man who understands what it means to choose you, deliberately and respectfully, day after day. Or at least, that is the standard to which I hold love now. I once believed that kind of steadiness had found me, and for a time, I allowed myself to settle into it, to believe that perhaps this was the beginning of the love story I had always carried somewhere deep within me. But life, ever the great teacher, has a way of refining our vision, sharpening our understanding of not just what we desire, but what we require.