When our paths diverge: Why it was better for us to go our separate ways

We didn't succeed. Looking back, I'm thankful you came into my life. Thank you for helping me when I needed help and for catching me when I fell. Thank you for the laugh, which echoed in our conversations, for all the jokes and antics that made us laugh to tears. Thank you for allowing me to be who I am with you. That it could have been me.

When we broke up, it felt like my whole world came crashing down. It's like someone ripped out a part of me. My thoughts began to haunt me, I began to wonder "what if". What if I tried harder? What if you understood each other better? What if I could overcome our differences? Why wasn't love enough to keep them together?

Today I know it was something we were missing. Something that is key to any relationship. Love wasn't enough. Love is never just falling in love with someone and that's it. No. You should too to fall in love with yourself, with a person, who you become when you are with him. She should feel accepted, fulfilled and strong. But I didn't understand it then.

When I decided to leave I didn't know I would be so heartbroken. That I would still go over everything that went wrong in my mind and look for answers that didn't exist. But now I understand that not every love story is meant to last a lifetime. And maybe that's okay. Maybe there are relationships like that just steps on the way to lasting happiness and to becoming the people we always wanted to be.

Sometimes we have to tell someone we love to say goodbye, no matter how much it hurts us. Sometimes even all the love in the world can't fix the irreconcilable differences that exist between two people. But that doesn't mean their love is any less valuable or any less special.

Sometimes love is just part of the journey we walk

Sometimes love shows us who we are, what we want, and what we deserve. And maybe that was the purpose of our relationship - to learn to value ourselves and to learn what we really want.

I still have fond memories of you. I don't wish you anything bad, on the contrary, I wish you the best. I hope you find your way and are happy wherever you are. I hope you are found what we were both looking for, that inner fulfillment we both needed.

Everything happened for a reason.