I came across this quote today – “love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it” and it probably goes hand in hand with any sort of toddler book you’ll ever read. I mean the teacher sent home some readings the other day and they were basically interchangeable for partner or child – you could scream, What the fuck are you doing? or you could say in a calm, measured voice instead, I really would like you to help me do this. Isn’t communication what we’re all seeking – talk to me, not the surface me, but the inside me.<\/p>\n
So when you’re just acting up, outside of yourself, out of control and possibly trying to act like you are doing no wrong, someone to walk up and say I love you right then and there can be in and of itself strongly disarming.<\/p>\n
I was thinking back to that film we just watched with Abby Lincoln, Nothing But A Man, where she continues to tell this man who is fighting as hard as he can to overcome the Jim Crow South and to be a man, that she loves him, even when he takes it all out on her – she was right though because in the end he needed her to love him the most when he was being the worst.<\/p>\n
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