When Love Feels Like War

When Love Feels Like War is a first-person emotional narrative about a woman whose inner life has been shaped by constant readiness. Living inside a reality where interruption, vigilance, and restraint are routine, she learns to survive by staying contained. Love enters her life not as refuge, but as another space requiring control and calculation. As intimacy collides with reflexive self-protection, closeness begins to feel unsafe. The story traces how emotional discipline slowly replaces vulnerability, and how distance becomes a chosen form of survival rather than a failure of love. What remains is not devastation, but a calm that carries an unspoken cost.