High tolerance for inappropriate behaviour due to shitty upbringing

Parents who are kind of strangers but incapable of intimacy

I am the guardian of my heart

I didn’t used to be.

I was a centurion tank

Ploughing through

Red flags

Starved of love

I grabbed at crumbs

‘I will never have a love like this again’ I said.

‘You will never have it at all’

Would have been more true to say.

Hunger makes us stupid

It makes the unavailable seem attractive

I am the guardian of my heart

I am learning to sit at the table

To be civilised

It’s okay to wait, to be patient

There is plenty to go around.