You're scared. You have trauma and fears. They lead you to avoid hard conversations and suppress your feelings till they burst out.

Please, just tell me how you feel so that we can work together and grow. We're not working against each other, we're not working against anything, we're supposed to just work together for us.

Working together isn't just compromise and playing pretend. It's having those difficult conversations. Feeling comfortable and safe enough to speak about your problems, trusting me enough to know that I won't throw it back in your face. Trusting me enough to know that I want this to work. Trust me the way that I'm trusting you.

I don't want you to lie and say everything is fine. I don't want you to shut yourself in. I love the real you. Not the version of you that you present yourself as when you want to protect who you really are. I love you, of course I would do anything for this to work, for us to work.