Molly Burford

Slowly but surely, I will loosen my grip on the idea of us, of we.

Because the cold, hard truth is this: if he acts like he doesn’t give a fuck about you, it’s because he doesn’t.

He doesn’t remember little things about you. He never really comments on the little things that make you, well, you.

You have trouble slowing down. You like to move fast, and when something demands you to slow it down to do it properly, you tend to really struggle.

Old souls are not interested in playing hard to get or partaking in the chase. In fact, they find the rules of modern dating to be absolutely exhausting.

I wish all the words we shared were as honest and raw as the ones that escape from our lips during one night’s end and one morning’s beginning.

You consider reaching out to him, and asking him how he’s been, and maybe if he’d like to get together. But you know better than that. You know how these things go.

We may not be where we thought we’d be, or where society thinks we should be, but we’re making big changes.