Can You Be Yourself Around Your Partner?

In a relationship, the only thing that matters is if you can be yourself around them. Shared hobbies, attraction, lifestyle alignment is all downstream. If you can't be fully yourself around someone, you're either performing or negotiating constantly. And over time, that corrodes everything. True intimacy is being radically unedited and still accepted. And the rest is just

set design. That's from Signal. When you combine neediness is when you place a higher priority on what others think of you than what you think of yourself you're rejecting yourself when you show up. as somebody else in order to please another person and roughly the only thing that matters is if you can be yourself around them truth becomes this solvent honesty becomes this solvent that cuts through whatever's

in front of you this is why it's so dangerous to not show up as yourself

in front of you this is why it's so dangerous to not show up as yourself