@shastin24: I think one of the most painful things you can experience is loving someone so deeply that you slowly start losing yourself in the process. You spend so much time trying to understand them. Their silence. Their distance. Their mixed signals. The way they can make you feel like the most important person in the world one day and like a complete stranger the next. And instead of walking away, you try harder. You convince yourself that maybe they’re just scared. Maybe they’ve been hurt before. Maybe they don’t know how to express their feelings. Maybe if you’re patient enough, understanding enough, and loving enough, they’ll eventually see what you’ve been trying to give them all along. So you keep making excuses for things that are quietly destroying you. You start questioning yourself. Your worth. Your appearance. Your personality. Whether you’re asking for too much or somehow not giving enough. And the saddest part is that you don’t even realize how much of yourself you’ve lost until you finally stop chasing the person you were so terrified of losing. I think that’s what hurts the most. Knowing that your intentions were genuine. That you weren’t playing games. That you weren’t looking for someone better. You genuinely wanted to build something with this one person. You saw a future in someone who couldn’t even give you certainty in the present. And somewhere along the way, loving them became more about surviving the confusion than actually experiencing happiness. I don’t regret having a heart that loves deeply. I don’t regret being patient or trying to understand someone I cared about. But I do regret how many times I abandoned my own peace just to keep someone else in my life. Because love should never require you to destroy yourself just to prove that it’s real. And sometimes the hardest person to forgive isn’t the one who hurt you. It’s yourself, for staying long after your heart knew it was time to leave. Some people will never understand how much you loved them because they’ll never know how much it cost you. * Shastin24

Shastin Stracener :

I think what hurts the most is knowing I would've done anything to make it work, and somehow that still wasn't enough.

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just talk life is too short

Rashida :

It is TERRIFYING how this was my same experience, feelings, reflections and endless notes to myself! It's eye opening how many of us have survived this kind of psychological and emotional abuse. 🙏😔❤️‍🩹🥀

GoldenGirl1101 :

This is exactly what I’m going through right now….think I’m just gonna keep going. I’m tired of destroying myself 💔

foxaberdeen13 :

You shouldn’t do that?! I’m Sicilian and Scottish Papa, The Voices In My Head Are Tag Team Batshit Crazy❣️I’m feral AF and full of banshee magic! 🤣😂🤣😂 Just a little thought, get yourself some new friends and change your scenery❣️You need someone to wake up your playful energy, that will break your chains and teach you how to run free❣️Sometimes when one strays off the established path?! They Find The Most Beautiful and Magical Things, Things That They Once Thought Were Impossible❣️🦋

Ruby Capri-Author :

I feel this so hard…🥺

LadyDi :

Same 😞 I have been in a marriage for over 26yrs and gave up trying to beat the wall down. Now I am lost because I don’t know what to do next.

Aurora.b.crafty📚 :

Holding someone in the light while your light fades is a tragedy because they don’t care that you’ve been in the dark

Brandie :

Yep but we better off in the long run without trying to figure them out

Aline :

Exactly...this sums it up completely [Sad]

BlissfullyUnaware📚✒️🐺🌹♟️🌶 :

I just want to hug all of yall who have ever felt this ! it makes me so sad seeing what people really truly seem to feel they have do for love !! im in my 40's and I still want no part of it !

C.A. Beluch :

You can't help who you love. You may never find your soulmate, or you may not recognize them. Sometimes it just happens. I know you are hurting. I've been there a few times myself, and it sucks! Don't give up on yourself and finding love❤️

Hilda P Betancourt :

And anxiety attacks depression because all u try to do is for the other half so stay strong 🌹

sassyfrass :

This

tamiko singleton :

Truth.. but grace is sometimes better left a mystery 👀👀🔥

📖Corinne Oates author📖 :

It's unreal how many times we lose ourselves trying to please that special someone we love while they put little effort in and then walk out on us like we're the problem. 🫂 my peace, my boundaries now are too valuable

Shastin Stracener :

The hardest part wasn't losing you. It was realizing how much of myself I lost trying to keep you.

Hilda P Betancourt :

I trued and tried and I still my pray to god and not only that there comes stresss

Beautiful Disaster :

I could not have said it better myself.You hit it right on the nail

alma22hot♈♈😈 :

Never again[Big LOL]

JubileeQueen :

Tenoftom :

Let go and let he will help and heal

Martine :

THAT PART … the trauma is real

Ava Silverheart :

the problem ends up being ur so busy caring about them u forget u matter. some things just arent meant to be and its pretty unfortunate. almost like we want to punish ourselves wanting someone that doesn't want us and u can't change it. It gets better with time and space.

Reena legendstar1Louis :

NEVER AGAIN!🤣🤣