Hon,

How will I know that it is ok and safe to keep being myself around you?

I have always had to mask due to walking on eggshells around toxic critics trying to belittle me.

You are so important and represent so much that is important to me that it has brought forward such near-painful lockdown shyness!

Will you reach for and keep reaching for me to draw me out of my shell and reassure me?

Because I definitely want to be the one who does this too, for you.