Original Advice
“Attention isn’t the same as intimacy: You’re chasing grand gestures and reading them as closeness. A Leo’s spotlight moments can hide real vulnerability they’re not sharing with you. If they don’t feel valued or safe, they’ll retreat—and the showy warmth won’t equal intimacy.”
Closeness Isn't a Standing Ovation
Applause is not touch. You've been binging on spectacle and calling it closeness. Their posts, party toasts, big weekends—loud, flickering heat. But when the lights cut, you don't know what they ache for, and they don't know if you can hold it. You keep feeding the performance, starving the quiet. No wonder the distance grows. You are courting fireworks, not a house.
Leo heat runs on recognition, but not the kind you keep throwing. Praise the costume and you miss the skin. They armor with brightness because it's efficient. It wins rooms, dodges risk. When you clap instead of asking, they disappear behind the curtain. Intimacy is unglamorous inventory: small check-ins, repeated truths, errands, silence that isn't empty. Reward the routine and watch the distance shorten.
Cosmic Context
Leo is solar—built to beam and be seen. The real loyalty test happens offstage, when the Sun sets and the heart asks for proof.
Action
──────Plan a quiet, phone-free hour and ask what hurts.
✨ You are allowed to stop clapping and require closeness. ✨