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Thank You For All the Things You Didn’t Do
You could’ve made my life miserable….but you didn’t
The moment
We know the moment when it hits us.
The person we loved more than life itself — a love affair so intense and satisfying we thought it would last forever — loses its excitement, energy, and ultimately its enjoyability.
We recognize that little voice in our head informing us it is time to end things. It doesn’t mean we’re ready to be alone or that we don’t love the person we had such high hopes for, it just means a dawning truth has emerged.
It means all those incompatibilities we thought would wither away under the sheer force and power of our love — didn’t.
Revenge
Anyone who says they don’t, for at least a fleeting moment, imagine what revenge would look like is lying.
The only emotion stronger than the initial stages of love and all its vast potential, hopes, and dreams, is the squeeze-your-guts-outs pain of losing it.
And while both people may be suffering, one always suffers worse than the other. Perhaps one person takes the other for granted and just expects them to be there forever.
I got lucky. I found someone who loved me enough to let me go….revenge free.
