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Your text was profoundly honest, and I found myself deeply connecting with it. While reading, I reflected on your point about "excessive love" being your biggest mistake, and I arrived at a personal interpretation: I wondered if the issue wasn't the excess of love, but rather that it was a love born from a place of lack, not abundance—what I think of as "begging for love."
It made me think that when we learn to love ourselves first, we establish healthy emotional boundaries. Then, loving others becomes a conscious choice within our capacity, not a self-sacrificing obligation. The poignant contradiction you highlighted—"I gave immense love, but I wasn't in love"—seems to perfectly capture this distinction.
Thank you for sharing this complex feeling with such psychological insight and literary beauty.
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