Don't fence me in. The fastest way to lose you is to tell you that you have to stay.
What you guard hardest is the right to choose. Not the choices themselves — the having of them. Obligation feels like a hand on your throat, even when it's gentle, even when it's love. You'll take the harder, lonelier road if it's yours. It's why you're hard to manage and impossible to fake. The trade: the same instinct that keeps you free keeps you at arm's length. You'll bolt at the first feeling of being needed too much — and call it independence when sometimes it's just the exit you reach for before anyone can ask you to stay.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou guard your freedom this hard because somewhere you learned that being held close and being held back can look exactly the same — so you stopped letting anyone get close enough to find out.