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And then one day, one moment, it was all gone. The hopes, the possibilities, the lovely moments that the future had in store for the two of you have washed away as if they had never existed.

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I forget what it feels like to fall asleep next to someone who adores me just as I adore them. I forget what it feels like to feel so  confident in someone else. To be so confident in love. To be so confident and to be so convinced that love can conquer all.

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I experienced love for you, but most importantly love for myself after you left.

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When you lose someone, you don’t just lose them once. You lose them every single day, you lose them slowly.

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That seven years drained me, and honestly I didn’t think I had it in me even. Well, I was wrong.

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You’ll be stuck in a state of longing and loving and it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt to keep loving them long after they have left you. But one day, you’ll realize how much of a blessing this is. To have experienced big, great love.

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Some soulmates are not here for a lifetime, they are here for a season or a reason.

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I didn’t prepare for the process of undoing. I didn’t prepare to scour my home, the place we’d called home together, and take down all remnants of you.

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It is difficult to move on. It breaks you down in ways you never expected to be broken before. But when this happens, do not fear the rebuilding. Do not lament the pieces of yourself that you have lost, the pieces of yourself that were left over.

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All I was to you was a pit stop in your exploration, a post adolescent experiment that ended as quickly as it began.