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We regularly get into difficulties in love. Because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love. We imagined we'd grown up. We don't want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be. 

We don't want to see the always susceptible insensitive child beneath the impressive adult. And so, in the face of so called small things that have undeniably Huertas missing warmth, comment here, a lack of touch there, we go numb. Instead, we silently and swiftly pull up the drawbridge, we unconsciously prepare to recriminate we tell ourselves that we have a lot of work to do, and just spend more time by ourselves.