Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.
Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.
Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.
I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.
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