"Elena, I want you to consider something. You've spent your whole life equating safety with worthiness. You thought if you could just achieve enough, be successful enough, build a life impressive enough, then you'd finally
deserve love. But that's backwards."
"What do you mean?"
"You
deserve love because you exist. Not because you've earned it through achievement. And choosing safety over risk isn't wrong—but you're choosing safety because you still don't believe you
deserve good things without suffering for them first."
The words crack something open in my chest.
"I don't know how to believe I
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