If you really love someone, you push them.
Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.
Rich always wanted to be so close that it freaked me out. I always thought it was weak of him that he liked me so much, but then I realized that he was strong to put up with me and stay with me when I kept trying to push him away.
If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.
I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.
