Someone depressed or heartbroken is not going to be magically “fixed” by your love. Does it help? Absolutely. It supports their healing, their recovery, offers them a pillar of support. But that patching up of their heart, and healing from their traumas, is something only they can do, as it is their core responsibility. You can’t make that choice, or that change, in their place.
This is going to be a lengthy, messy and raw one. This is me saying you’re not alone, you do deserve to be in a happy and healthy relationship, and yes, it gets better. Everybody goes through this. This is a step by step guide that takes you by the hand on how to get over a break up, and which you can refer to again and again, as many times as you need.
All these unhealthy representations of love in books and media replaying outdated patterns, cycles and hurting each other all ‘in the name of love’? I’m over it. I’ve been over it since 2017. Write about couples that are teamplayers ready to brave the whole world for each other. Write healthy representations of flawed individuals working through their stunted emotional awareness, those toxic behavioral patterns ingrained by social conditioning.
To all the romantics and beyond, so many people wonder if the person they’re with is the right one. If there is anything better waiting out there, how to fix and mend the other, how