🌿 Revisit #16 — Me Tarzan, Me Awake:
Rediscovering Us (When Love Finally Wakes Up and Chooses Again)
Rediscovering Us (When Love Finally Wakes Up and Chooses Again)
There’s a moment in every healing story
where the heart finally wakes up —
really wakes up.
Not from guilt.
Not from fear.
Not from loneliness.
But from clarity.
This is where Tarzan finally understood:
He had not lost Jane’s love…
but he was dangerously close to losing her trust,
her softness,
her laughter,
her openness,
her us.
Awakening doesn’t happen in an instant —
it’s the slow rising of courage after a long season of numbness.
But when it rises,
everything changes.
This chapter is the rebirth —
the moment he chooses Jane not out of panic,
but out of purpose.
🌸 What Tarzan Was Really Feeling
Tarzan’s awakening wasn’t peaceful —
it was a jolt.
He saw the distance.
He felt the ache in her silence.
He recognized how his absence had shaped her exhaustion.
And for the first time,
he understood that effort was not optional —
it was oxygen.
Inside, he realized:
“I miss us.
I miss her.
I miss who I was when we were connected.
And I want it all back —
not someday,
not eventually,
but now.”
He wasn’t awakened by fear of losing her.
He was awakened by the desire to win her heart again.
That’s the shift that matters.
That’s the awakening that heals.
🌿 What Jane Was Really Feeling
Jane wanted to believe him.
She wanted to feel his sincerity.
She wanted to open her heart again —
but she needed more than words.
She needed consistency.
Pace.
Patience.
Proof.
Not Grand Gestures™
—not the movie version—
but small, steady, daily actions that said:
“You matter.
I see you.
I choose you —
not because I’m supposed to,
but because I want to.”
Jane wasn’t skeptical —
she was cautious.
She wasn’t cold —
she was protecting the heart that had learned to survive without warmth.
Her hope had been fragile for too long.
She needed to feel safe in his awakening.
🌿 Where the Communication Clogged (and Then Cleared)
Tarzan’s awakening didn’t instantly fix their past.
Jane’s caution didn’t mean she didn’t want repair.
Where they once misread each other,
they now needed to slow down
and interpret each other with tenderness.
The clog loosened the moment they both realized:
Awakening requires consistency
Healing requires patience
Connection requires presence
Trust requires proof
Two hearts suddenly moving in the same direction
after months of moving apart
—that’s where the thaw became transformation.
🌿 How It Could Have Gone Differently
What Tarzan could have said:
“I’m awake now —
really awake.
I want to rebuild us with patience, love, and truth.
I want to earn your trust again.”
What Jane could have said:
“I see your effort.
I’m willing to meet you halfway —
slowly,
gently,
steadily.”
What they both needed:
A shared rebuilding plan
Gentle accountability
Emotional check-ins
New rituals of intimacy
Celebration of progress
Affection that grows instead of fades
Grace for slip-ups
A willingness to rewrite the story
Awakening is not the end of healing —
it’s the beginning of reconciliation.
🌿 Series 3 Intimacy Insight
When a partner awakens,
they don’t resurrect the old relationship —
they build a new one.
Awakening is choosing.
Choosing is loving.
And loving is the daily practice of tending to the bond
that almost slipped away.
🌴 Jungle Laugh:
“Tarzan kissed her neck. Jane forgot why she was mad. Happens.”
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