Avoidant Stories

Pretender Series || Salazar Cousins #5 Avoidant. She had always been like this. A girl that plays around and never been serious with her relationships. But when she fell in love, she masked that feeling instead of confessing. Gusto nila ang isa't isa pero, lagi na lang siyang umiiwas, iniiba usapan. Kasi pakiramdam niya, hindi sila bagay sa isa't isa. Why would someone so kind and gentle want a rebellious, always angry, always running person like her? She even called his belief stupid yet, he never got mad at her. It made her uncomfortable. How could someone stay despite her flaws and mistakes? How could someone find heaven beneath the flame?

In which Amelie is relieved that she'd left her room tidy so they'd think of her kindly when they come for her things.

The biggest heartbreak for an artist is art itself. For someone who wanted nothing more than a camera in his hand with no guilt in his heart Ayushman got his hands full with grab handles in the metro as a part of his daily commute to his office, a place he never wanted to imagine working in, A tall structure adorned with glass windows that shines all day and becomes a mirror at nights standing among many other identical buildings in the heart of Mumbai. It's been half a year since he got his first job and just a minute to his login for the day. It's a new week with the same schedule, same food, same traffic and the same colleague next to his cubicle. Just when he was wondering about life has been nothing but monotonous to him he gets a call from his manager that changed his life for the next few months and Ayushman Mhatre was so not ready for it. What will anyone do when they know that their happy moments are like lives in a video game and they could run out of it? Try not to lose them, is the only answer Ayushman could think of.

"What do you do when the ghost who broke your heart learns how to breathe again?" Four years. That's how long I bled my energy dry trying to save Alex, a man who mistook emotional intimacy for a cage. When he walked out, he took my peace with him. It took a year of tears, late-night writing under @letters_after_the_ghost, and a sudden six-week sabbatical to Portugal to piece myself back together. On the wild cliffs of Sagres, surrounded by ocean air and clay workshops, I finally found her: the woman I was meant to be. Until the universe threw the ultimate monkey wrench into my healing. In a tiny fishing village thousands of miles from home, I ran right back into Alex. Except he isn't the distant, anxious boy who wrecked me. He's calm. He's reformed. And he's looking at me like I'm his second chance at destiny. Back home, Noah offers the quiet, unshakeable sanctuary I've always deserved. But with the electric pull of the past reigniting on coastal cliffs, I'm left standing on the edge of a choice: Do I step back into the past, step forward into safety, or prove that I am the only sanctuary I will ever need?

ᴮᵃᵇʸ ʸᵒᵘ'ʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵃᵈᵈᵉˢᵗ, ᵇᵃᵇʸ ʸᵒᵘ'ʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵃᵈᵈᵉˢᵗ ᵍⁱʳˡ. ᴺᵒᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵉˡˢᵉ ᵐᵃᵗᵗᵉʳˢ, ⁿᵒᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵉˡˢᵉ ᵐᵃᵗᵗᵉʳˢ ᵍⁱʳˡ ╰┈➤ ɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ, ʜᴏʙɪᴇ ʙʀᴏᴡɴ ᴍᴇᴇᴛꜱ ᴊᴀᴅᴇ ʀᴏꜱᴇᴀᴠᴇʟᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇʏ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ... ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ?? Brireezyᵀᴹ

3 years LDR. Siya: Girl na laging tumatakbo pag seryoso na. Avoidant. Takot masaktan. Ako: Boy na laging humahabol kahit pagod na. Anxious. Takot iwan. "Seen" "Busy" "Space muna" Yan yung mga salitang kinamulatan namin. Pero paano kung isang araw... ako na yung hindi na makakahabol? WARNING: Tragic ending. Prepare tissues.

Some heartbreaks don't shatter you, they unravel you thread by thread, until you're forced to rebuild the parts of yourself you once gave away. "The Version of You I Never Met" is a "Tribrid" book, part memoir, part emotional guide, part psychological blueprint for anyone who has loved someone who couldn't love them back the way they deserved. Blending raw storytelling with attachment psychology, this book explores the very anatomy loving an avoidant partner, carrying emotional weight for two, surviving emotional absence and walking away from a bond you wanted to кеер. Through a story blood-stained with devotion, confusion, imbalance, heartbreak and clarity the author dissects the hidden patterns behind avoidance, the cost of loving someone who hasn't healed, and the quiet, almost celestial strength it takes to choose yourself when choosing them costs too much. Its not a story about blame it's a story about limits, healing, and the power of understanding the truth even when it hurts. If you've ever begged for clarity or felt invisible in the arms of someone you loved, this book will feel like finally being seen. If you're learning to trust again, it will remind you that healing is possible, and that some endings are actually beginnings in disguise. For the heartbroken, the healing, the emotionally attuned, and the lovers who have always loved too much. This book is your mirror, your medicine, and your metamorphosis. It will break you, then rebuild you. It will explain him, then return you to yourself. It will hurt - then then it will heal. "He loved you, just not in the way you needed. You loved him, just not in the way he could hold."

Joan wants to try again. JFK wants to start over. They both want to trust each other. But what happened in the past can't be undone. Will they be forced to change for the other to make a relationship work? Or will they find that who they really are under the surface is enough? Meanwhile, Abe recruits Catherine the Great and Caesar to do what needs to be done...

A story about a girl I met at church, a promise ring that was never given, and a love that never truly left. Between the altar, the bridge, and the memories we shared, this is the story of hope, heartbreak, and the door I still leave open for you.

Carizza Amethyst De Lara is a hopeless romantic probinsyana girl who believes in divine timing. She believes in love but refuses to rush it, because for her, love is already written among the stars. When the right time comes, when the stars beyond the universe are waiting to collide-it will happen, at the perfect moment. But, still carrying a quiet fear of loving too deeply again after being hurt by another man she admired but liking or loving someone doesn't mean she'll end up with them-some people are just lessons and that's okay. While she enjoys spoiling herself and cherishing her loved ones, fate is silently weaving her story with Eros Vaughn Tuason. ‎

Staying busy to avoid the slightest thought, sight, and feeling of you.

as the title says

did it mean nothing to you? all our late night conversations, goodnight texts, romantic reels, it meant nothing to you?

loving someone with your every fiber lonely love

She finds peace in music and solitude, a world where no one asks too much or demands too much of her. Independent, strong, and fiercely private, she loves freely but fears closeness love feels suffocating when it leans too near. He loves her deeply, but her distance confuses him, making him question her loyalty and her heart. He wants her entirely, yet every step he takes closer seems to push her away. In a story of longing, miscommunication, and the delicate balance between love and freedom, they struggle to understand each other. She yearns for love without losing herself, and he yearns for closeness without losing trust. But when love pulls in opposite directions, can they ever meet in the same rhythm? Music is her anchor. Love is their storm

A prequel to 721 Miles Away. Long before Bali became my escape... Long before Rome became my home... There was Adrian. The first man I ever trusted with my future. The first man I imagined growing old with. The first person who made forever feel close enough to touch. We spent years building dreams that felt impossible to break. Until one day, life proved that sometimes, the strongest foundations can crumble without warning. This is not the story of how I met the love of my life. This is the story of the love that changed the direction of my life. Because every journey has a beginning. And mine... began just seven miles away.

this is all about myself.

Avoidant Lilly and cheerful Andy, ex-just-best-friends (oh yeah, totally. Mmhm), accidently meet up in an unplanned planned trip to Istanbul, Turkey, to spend the joyful holidays. Forced to share a room, a bed, and one hotel key card, they find themselves living the moments they always dreamt and talked about together, though completely different than what they expected, and relive memories they tried to bury and forget. Join them this chaotic Christmas as Lilly learns to navigate through a storm of feelings, all while Andy is hogging the covers, with lots of hot chocolate on the side... ... and, some bruises here and there. Tropes: ♥︎ One Bed ◇ Long Distance ♥︎ Holiday Romance ◇ Second Chance ♥︎ Friends To Lovers ◇ Forced Proximity