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“Catching Feelings”

  • To catch feelings is to develop romantic feelings for someone but the phrasing of feelings as something to be caught like a cold says a lot about how disdainfully we view such a vulnerability
  • It makes sense but it also is so tragic that in modern dating that people guard against feelings as another disease
  • But maybe it is the most natural thing in the world, to be bonded with someone one falls asleep beside