Hide Your Crazy

Love is scary. To love is to lower your guard, peel off your protective layers one by one, and reveal your ugliest, most vulnerable sides. This carries the risk of terrible pain—you could be rejected by the very person whose approval means most to you. Under the circumstances, anyone might feel like a freak, subhuman, a monster unworthy of love.

I’ve been there. It’s nearly impossible to date without hurting, or being hurt by, someone you deeply care about. Someone who’s seen you naked, met your parents, and knows your darkest fears and most shameful secrets. Hide Your Crazy is my attempt to spin these truths into something fun and ultimately hopeful. Love may be scary, but we have to risk it if we ever want to find connection, intimacy, and true partnership with another soul. And by "hiding our crazy" from the world, we also deny our own potential. Because in some ways, what’s ugly about us is also what’s most beautiful. Sometimes, monsters are the most human creatures of all.