Ebb, flow, beginnings, endings

An essay written in 2020, edited and revised for today

Relationships ebb and flow. They evolve and sometimes devolve.

Not everyone we meet is meant to be a forever person. This can be heartbreaking, we can find ourselves clinging to relationships that are long past their expiration date, everyone miserable, but no one being willing to have the agency and maturity to walk away.

Some people are meant to be a forever person but how that plays out we can't know and likely their roles change over time. Most of my “forever people” haven’t been in my life every step of the way, we have entered and exited each other’s lives to varying degrees over the decades, and still always find our ways back to each other.