I haven’t always been on the most familiar terms with my feelings. I knew about them, of course- but in a vague, distant relative-y type of way. They were cousins that I didn’t like much. Uncles that I hoped not to see at family dos. Nieces that I- well, you get the picture. When it came to matters of love and dating, I thought of my feelings as complicating little distractions, and so I shunned them. There were entire relationships where I barely told myself how Ihellip;read more raquo;