Reciprocity

PILLAR IV — RECIPROCITY

Part I: Not emotional labor — ethical mutualism.

Reciprocity isn’t charity, self-sacrifice, or imbalance disguised as devotion.
It is the law that keeps sovereigns from collapsing into each other or consuming each other whole.

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Part II: It is the demand that both show up —

equally
intentionally
willingly

No extraction.
No quiet resentment.
No “one carries while the other takes.”

Two forces offering weight, truth, fire —
not to match identically,
but to meet proportionally.

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Part III: Reciprocity is the refusal to let one sovereign be diminished by the other’s hunger.

It is the shared agreement that depth is chosen, not assumed — consented, not taken.

And when one descends deeper, the other descends with awareness, not obligation.

Reciprocity is the pulse between two palms — not identical rhythms, but aligned intention.

This is how we prevent collapse. This is how we keep the fire from becoming sacrifice. This is how two sovereigns stay sovereign.

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