Original Advice
“Reassurance Won’t Magically Appear: If you don’t state your needs clearly, people will miss them. Waiting for mind-readers breeds resentment that looks like neediness. Ask plainly, or accept the default.”
Say It. Stop Leaking Need.
Reassurance doesn’t visit uninvited. You sit hungry at a full table, pretending you’re fed. Then you sulk when no one passes the bread you never requested. That sulk reads as neediness, not mystery. Stop staging tests. Stop baiting traps. Name the thing: attention, confirmation, a check-in. Say it to a person, not to the room. Watch resentment evaporate like steam.
People cannot read tide charts on your face. Your shell blocks the signal you hope they catch. Indirection feels safer; it only multiplies chances for failure. Clarity is kindness, even to yourself. A simple sentence outperforms twelve hints and a slammed drawer. Specific requests create specific care. If they say no, you learn. If they say yes, you eat. Either way, you stop haunting doorways.
Cosmic Context
Cancer is Moon-ruled: tidal, protective, psychic at home but not omniscient. Aim your intuition outward; pair empathy with explicit asks.
Action
──────Text one person: 'I need reassurance about X today.'
✨ You are allowed to ask twice without apologizing. ✨