Well-said here.

I would rather be seen than loved… or more preferably both, but still.

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    6 months ago

    If someone says they love you, but you don’t trust that they know you, then how do you know they’re not loving a mirage in their head rather than you?

    This comes very close to Hegel’s dialectics of intersubjectivity, where one develops a sense of self through a process of mutual recognition with others.