Hitomissickpleasure: !new!

To miss until the body aches is a kind of fever. But to feel pleasure in that ache, to refuse the cure because the wound is now familiar — that is hitomissickpleasure.

There is a word for when you want someone so badly that even their absence tastes sweet — that bitter-honey sickness of the hitomi (the eye) that looks for a face in every stranger's crowd. hitomissickpleasure

It lives in the space between a text message sent and a reply never coming. In the ritual of touching a jacket they left behind. In the strange joy of replaying the last fight because at least in the memory, they're still there to argue with. To miss until the body aches is a kind of fever