A short list of things I’ve learned and know in my older years…
Every lover doesn’t have to be a great love.
Every great love doesn't need to, nor should, last forever.
Sometimes great loves can be reignited.
And in that reignition, things can never go back to how they were before.
There is a reason great loves end.
If both people haven't grown and shifted and done their work... if both aren't willing to continue growing and shifting and doing their work... well then we are only ever grasping at ghosts woul can only live in the past.
The past is past. This moment now is what we have as we look forward to the future.
I don't want to be stuck in the past. Ever. I don’t want to be always in the fantasy of the future or possibilities. I want to be in the here and now, in the what actually is.
In relationships, both people need to be able, or at least is willing to learn and try, to communicate and express what they feel, what is happening for them internally, what they want and need.
It can sup…
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