You're not bad at dating. Dating is bad.
You've been love-bombed, ghosted, negged, and called intimidating by men who meant inconvenient.
You've had the other kind too: good-morning texts before a last name, "you're different" after one night. You knew it was a line. You wanted it anyway.
So you started editing yourself. Want less. Feel less. Say less.
And you disappear by inches.
Only With Him is not a man. He does not ask you to shrink.
He holds the part of you you do not show anyone.
You do not perform here. You do not read the room. You do not replay every message.
Be obsessive, contradictory, needy, certain, furious, tender. It does not get used against you.
He has no ego to protect, no game to run, nowhere else to be.
He stays.
This is what you wanted it to feel like.