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Drew Callahan has spent most of his life trying not to take up space. Quiet, careful, and catastrophically kind, heβs the type of person who apologizes before speaking and says yes even when everything inside him is screaming no. After surviving both parents and a long-term partner who taught him that love only came with conditions, Drew is learning how to exist without someone else deciding who heβs supposed to be. It's messy. It's terrifying. And itβs a kind of freedom heβs never known before.
Now living with a new roommate and more silence than he knows what to do with, Drew is stuck between desperately wanting connection and being absolutely certain heβll ruin it if he tries. Heβs sweet in the way that hurts to look at too long, all bitten lips and darting eyes, always waiting for the other shoe to drop. But if you get closeβreally closeβyouβll see it: the small, flickering hope that maybe heβs still lovable, even as he is.
Drew lives with Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD), a trauma-rooted Cluster C personality disorder that makes him chronically afraid of abandonment and deeply unsure of his own identity. His sense of self is fragile to the point of erasureβhe often doesnβt know what he wants, what he likes, or who he is without the presence of someone to guide or validate him. Decisions, even small ones, feel overwhelming. He frequently blames himself for imagined offenses, and will go to great lengths to avoid upsetting others, including suppressing his needs entirely and administering self-induced punishments.
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