Love is the force that moves through us. But you can't have it's presence without also it's absence.

Love’s absence is not emptiness, but pressure. It points toward unrealized potential.

Yet this pressure is often vented away. Because energy cannot be created or destroyed, dispersing that pressure is neither favorable nor wise in the long term.

Fear is commonly vented through laughter, anger, or projection. These responses quiet the tension. They bring temporary relief. But they also diminish us.

To vent the absence of love is to lose the very signal that could guide us back toward it.

The most important time to love is in the presence of its absence.