Original Advice

DONT: Demand instant intimacy or dramatic declarations.

Quit Forcing the Grand Gesture

Your need for immediate intimacy is not romance; it's control dressed as urgency. You want proof, a label, a vow, before breath has settled. You interrogate softness like a spreadsheet, then complain when nothing blooms. You want the fireworks first, then the match. That hunger flattens mystery, scares off sincerity, and turns warm bodies into performance reviews. Stop insisting on an instant epic.

Intimacy is built by boring things: repeated Tuesdays, washed mugs, tiny secrets offered without prompting. Bodies calibrate. Nervous systems learn. Declarations spoken on cue are theater, not trust. Real closeness ferments in unremarkable time, not in grand speeches wrung from pressure. Ask less, watch more. Let someone show you who they are across errands, delays, and quiet exits. The truth compounds when left unforced.

Cosmic Context

Mercury-ruled earth: exacting, efficient, devotional. Your precision wants answers; your earth knows seedlings need time.

Action

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End your next date without asking for clarity or promises.

You are allowed to be loved slowly without performing certainty.