I’m just bleeding. My heart is bleeding. For my friends, for me. I’m selfish. Or so I’ve been told.
I’m just bleeding.

I’m just bleeding. My heart is bleeding. For my friends, for me. I’m selfish. Or so I’ve been told.
I’m just bleeding.

Yet, for many of us, we can’t be either of these people. Giver or receiver. It is impossible for us to give love, for we are afraid our gift will be ignored, returned or trampled on. It is impossible for us to receive love for we are afraid the gift we are receiving is not genuine, will expire or has conditions. Limitations set up before the gift giver got to the playing ground. The rules set before the players got a chance to ask why.
Well, I have my own rules too.
I just don’t know what they are. And I’m sorry, because if you are ever trying to give, I’m a shrew. And if you ever try to receive, I’m overwhelming. Your fucked either way. You should know that right now.
Take a Xanax. Or run. I don’t know what to tell you.

alternate title* How I know my Zoloft is working
I bought him a toddler bed this month. Not because I’m opposed to cribs(dear GOD NO) but because I had put together the one he had when I was pregnant and he climbed out of it once too many times and it feel apart. Money wise, it just made more sense to transition to a toddler bed. He looks so freaking grown up in it and tiny it at the same time, it is indescribable. On the one hand, he is big enough to stay in a big boy bed. On the other, he cuddles with his blankie and bear and cup and for a fleeting second, still looks like a baby. Paradoxical. One of many I find myself staring at. On the one hand, he’s a growing child, learning to cross the street with me. And the other hand, he’s afraid of the strangers coming at him on the other side of the street.
I don’t know how to tell him, so am I.