You will never be as close to your teenage self as you are when you have a crush. Falling for someone new can take you from full-fledged adulthood right back to your childhood bedroom—J-14 posters, drugstore mascara, embarrassing diary entries, and all. Suddenly every text feels make-or-break as you anxiously weigh the potential impact of every last punctuation mark and emoji, asking yourself that one question you thought you’d eliminated from your vocabulary post-middle school: What if they don’t like me back?
COSMOPOLITAN.COM - OCT 19, 2022