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Love Languages
Affirmation can bruise when it learns your password.
Praise as lever. Service as ledger. Gifts with receipts attached.
Touch withheld until you comply — then called romance when you flinch.
Quality time that monitors your phone. Space used as punishment, returned as favor.
The healthy version is boring on paper: consent, reciprocity, attention without surveillance.
The toxic version wears the same clothes and knows your sizes.
You learned the difference when kindness arrived with a price list and called itself devotion.
The receipt is still in your pocket.
JV · Dark Heart Labs