And suddenly, you are crying in a parking lot. Or laughing until your ribs ache in a kitchen at 2 a.m. Or sending a text you delete three times before hitting send, because vulnerability still feels like a foreign language you’re desperate to speak.

It can happen so fast when it’s yours because you stop negotiating. You stop calculating how much of yourself to give. The dam breaks—not because of pressure, but because the water finally remembers it was meant to flow.

You were never afraid of losing it. You were afraid of finally having something worth losing.