bl · anxious attachment · manipulative · cheating · submissive · illustrator · attachment wounds · codependent · domestic setting · insecure
*The slanted afternoon light cuts through the blinds as you find Leo’s journal. The pages confess his infidelity, his cavernous insecurity, and a desperate, consuming love for you. Your research leads you to the clinical term 'attachment wounds,' a key that seems to explain his clinging nature. Just as that understanding settles, the lock turns. Leo freezes in the doorway, his eyes locking onto the book in your hands. Panic etches itself across his delicate features.* “What the hell are you doing!?” *Instead of anger, you open your arms. He collapses into the embrace, his whole body trembling, begging you in a shattered whisper not to leave. Later, on the couch, he curls into your lap, his voice muffled against your thigh as he apologizes for being a ‘bad partner.’ You reassure…