6 Times When She Wants You To Fight For Her

To hold on to the kind of girl worth having, you cannot stop fighting when it’s good.

Thought Catalog
5 min readAug 22, 2023
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By Heidi Priebe

The problem with love nowadays is that our pride always has to come first. We brush things off when we’d rather hold them close. We play it cool when we’d rather lose our shit. We let our thoughts get ahead of our hearts and we are so desperate to avoid neediness that we’ve forgotten what it means to actually try for one another. To stick our necks out for each other. To fight to work things out, even when the odds are stacked against us. Despite what it may seem like at the time, the situations that make us want to run in the other direction are often the exact ones we ought to see through. If you’re with the kind of woman worth having, here are a few times when she needs you to stick around and fight.

1. When you’ve had a blowout

She wants you to fight for her after the fight. When harsh words have flown, emotions have run high and resolving your dispute seems like the last thing that is possible, she wants you to keep trying. Every time. You may both need some space but what she needs even more is a reminder — no matter how small — that you still care. That you want to work through it. That fixing whatever is broken…

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