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The Forbidden Grammar of Desire: We are born fluent in touch. Then trauma teaches us grammar. Every “love language” we speak as adults is a dialect of the nervous system’s survival code—a syntax learned in captivity. The anxious child learns that affection must be earned; the avoidant child learns that tenderness is danger with better lighting. Together they create the modern romance: two translators arguing over a dialect neither invented.
