Emotional Blackmail and Love

Some notes on the conditional nature of being human.

I tell myself a lot of lies to get through the days. But I have been really focused on this one as of late:

“If you loved me, you would do this for me and you would want to do it.”

The “this” in this situation would be whatever I wanted. And the “want” would be you would want to do whatever I wanted because you loved me. And you wanted me to be happy.

I …