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Hurting you back didn’t ease my pain or help me heal.

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If I knew it was going to be the last time I saw you, I would have hugged you a little bit tighter.

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I am done going above and beyond and getting left behind. 

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As you looked into his eyes, you no longer saw the future that you saw on the night you first met—vacations, holidays, laughs, kisses, togetherness, and forever. Instead, you saw nothingness. 

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There is a heaviness I experience frequently that I don’t speak of, mainly because this is the closest I’ve come to putting it into words.

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Choosing to blame life and circumstances for how you turned out to be is basically you giving up on yourself.

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Take this time to heal. Let yourself feel the cold anger, the hot tears, the bitter mourning. Grant it permission to move through you.

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Everyone experiences pain differently. Just because you lost a mother and your friend lost a sister doesn’t mean your loss is more painful. Pain is pain.

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Day by day, it was like you were carving out every inch of my soul, and instead of letting something new blossom there, you left it empty.

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The worst part is that while I was yelling, talking badly about you, calling you names and wishing that you would hurt just the way you hurt me, I realized that I was destroying myself in the process.