Dear Aida,

Before you can understand love — real love, the kind that steadies a life — you must understand the four figures who live inside every one of us. They are ancient, invisible, wordless… yet they shape nearly everything we feel in relationships.

Think of them as inner characters.
Not personalities, but tendencies.
Not roles, but instincts.

They appear whenever love, closeness, fear, intimacy, or longing enters the room.

Their names are The Seeker, The Giver, The Wanderer, and The Flamekeeper.