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After the breakup, you’ll be able to understand how you both dealt with it because the loyal one is the one who stays single for a while to heal and understand what could be improved for the next relationship.

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Be extremely truthful with each other and accept that the final outcome of that discussion very well could be the decision to end things.

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“Don’t mistreat her, she’s needy but she’ll give as much as you do. Don’t give up on her cause she needs you more than you know.”

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I started talking to new guys. I let myself imagine futures with them, even if the “future” was just a week away. Even if it was just a few seconds. I let myself feel things I hadn’t let myself feel since you. I let myself hope.

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I will not let myself be defined by a man who walked away.

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Maybe that’s how you know you’ve fallen out of love: I spent so many years underlining your sentences and dog-earing your pages, but in the end I didn’t feel the need to reread your passages or explore your hidden meanings. I just wanted to move on to something better.

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Pisces: They are going to break the news to you over text so that they don’t have to see your face when you realize what is happening.

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That’s the saddest thing about breakups. You lose the closest person you ever had. You turn into two strangers in a bar, wondering about what could’ve been.

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Maybe I am just a grudge holder, but I think it is extremely important to acknowledge toxic people and know when, and how, to escape before the Final Friend Shit Show has its grand finale.

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Maybe the truth is that I want to give you that second chance — a small part of me longs to — but I can’t be that person anymore. Because people don’t change even when they promise to, and I can’t keep holding onto hope when all signs point to the cold, hard truth: you already hurt me once, and pretending that you won’t do it again is just me fooling myself.