The Red Flags We Romanticised: How Emotional Illiteracy Taught Us to Call Pain Love

There is a particular kind of heartbreak that does not arrive through betrayal or abandonment. It arrives quietly, through awareness. It is the moment you realise that what you defended, excused, prayed through, and labelled love was in fact a series of emotional compromises: sanctioned by culture, reinforced by faith, and normalised by generations who…

February 14, 2026
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