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When nurturing becomes worrying

I bought a plant to make my apartment feel more alive and now I'm anxious about whether I'm watering it too much or too little and the plant has become a source of death anxiety rather than life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your care has transformed into surveillance, and love has disguised itself as control.

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