u/Responsible-Owl464

▲ 211 r/BreakUps

Breakups become dangerous when the relationship was actually good.

I feel like most breakup advice is for toxic relationships. Talked with a lot of different people...

But what do you do when the relationship was genuinely loving for years… and then one person suddenly changed, got overwhelmed, or left?

It’s been 6 months and I still can’t decide what hurts more:

- losing the person

or

- losing the future I thought I had.

People who went through this, how did you move on without turning cold?

It'd be really helpful to hear honest perspectives

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u/Responsible-Owl464 — 4 days ago

I wish you came back before I learned how to stop needing you

I think a part of me will always ache...

over the fact that you came back only after the damage was already done.

After I cried alone.

After I questioned my worth.

After I learned how to carry your absence without collapsing.

Because if I mattered enough to return to, why did I have to survive losing you first?

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u/Responsible-Owl464 — 5 days ago

I wish you came back before I learned how to stop needing you

I think a part of me will always ache...

over the fact that you came back only after the damage was already done.

After I cried alone.

After I questioned my worth.

After I learned how to carry your absence without collapsing.

Because if I mattered enough to return to, why did I have to survive losing you first?

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u/Responsible-Owl464 — 5 days ago