i want to grow old with someone in the way that we’ll dance in the kitchen together even though our bones will hurt from it later and in the way that we’ll know each other’s favorite scents and in the way that we’ll miss when we were young but we’ll know that we have a part of that still in each other
when kafka said “all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding” and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
When orwell said: “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”