Detoxify by Robert M. Drake

Sometimes life does not separate you from someone all at once. It lets the same disappointment return until your heart stops making excuses for it. What you thought would break you becomes the very thing that loosens your hands. Some endings begin long before anyone says goodbye.

Some people will say you never loved them because you finally left. They confuse love with endless tolerance because tolerance benefited them. But leaving does not erase what you felt. Sometimes leaving proves you finally learned to include yourself in the love you were giving.

Sometimes the greatest lesson is not learning how to love someone better. It is learning that you should never have to abandon yourself to keep love alive.

You cannot heal in a place where the wound is being reopened every week. You can journal, meditate, pray, exercise, read every book ever written. None of it can fully compete with returning every night to the same source of pain.

There are relationships where the biggest relief comes when the other person leaves the house. Think about that. Your safest moments should not begin when your partner disappears.