Sometimes... (5)

Sometimes we hold onto relationships long past their expiration date.

We may be doing this to avoid the inevitable grief that comes with endings. The heartache of loss. The facing of the unknown.

We all do this from time to time.

And the grief of endings and heartache of loss and the facing of the unknown all hurts. None of it is fun. It is painful. Physically. Emotionally. Even psychologically.

Sometimes we may be witness to a person going down a path we don’t believe is right for them. And in those times it may not be our place to give them our opinion. In part because our opinion may be tinged with the not wanting of change for ourselves. And mostly because all of us need to learn through experience. Even if those experiences are awful.

Sometimes we see a pattern of running away in another that we know so well because it’s our own pattern too. And often we have to let them run.

Because love isn’t about cages.

Or control.

Or our own expectations or wants for another.

So sometimes we are left…