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To Acquiesce the Real Support Needed

To Acquiesce the Real Support Needed

aka to approve the moves made toward you

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Mar 13, 2023
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Love letter 48, 13.03.2023

It’s the middle of March, and we are days from the end of the first quarter of 2023 already, how does that feel for you?!

Last week Thursday I was burnt out. I had to spend most of the day on the sofa while my daughter played, kept me awake, and directed the day’s viewings. Drained, with no energy, spaced out, weak, body aches and loss of direction for the day, I was tired enough to go with whatever she wanted. An emotional waterfall, I had to let it break.

The crash to the day on the sofa was building up. I had 3+ weeks of broken sleep since the return to nursery school since the constant cold coughing started at night again and since the lack of any decent hours’ sleep seemed something in the past beyond.

On Monday, I’d taken J for private allergy testing. The results were surprising!

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