I'm not a paid subscriber so I appreciate so much that you keep these important posts open. I'm also in the midst of finding the words to leave someone because I have to learn to love myself beter-- and that means recognizing that they are not for me and if I would settle for them I would do it only because I feel a bit lonely. I wouldn't let my child self get involved in something that doesn't feel right, I would love them and be strong enough to voice my true feelings regardless of how sad or disappointed the other person might feel.
"dating is strange. you spend time with someone, convincing yourself that something different is good, that the things you found important before are different now and maybe, just maybe, because the standards you have long held didn’t lead to the ending you expected, you justify ditching them and all of this - this being everything- is easy to fool yourself into thinking it’s refreshing because it’s new."
Wow, this hit me in ways I never knew were possible.
you have such a captivating way of describing melancholic emotions that it makes my soul gasp and sigh in agreement
I'm not a paid subscriber so I appreciate so much that you keep these important posts open. I'm also in the midst of finding the words to leave someone because I have to learn to love myself beter-- and that means recognizing that they are not for me and if I would settle for them I would do it only because I feel a bit lonely. I wouldn't let my child self get involved in something that doesn't feel right, I would love them and be strong enough to voice my true feelings regardless of how sad or disappointed the other person might feel.
i will always have these more diary-esque entries public to all subscribers. thank you for such a thoughtful and vulnerable comment
"dating is strange. you spend time with someone, convincing yourself that something different is good, that the things you found important before are different now and maybe, just maybe, because the standards you have long held didn’t lead to the ending you expected, you justify ditching them and all of this - this being everything- is easy to fool yourself into thinking it’s refreshing because it’s new."
Wow, this hit me in ways I never knew were possible.
I am in actual tears