My mind says “forget you”, but my heart says “I can’t”. My soul says “run away fast” but my ego says “I can’t live without you”. There is a war of feelings pulling me apart as I am violently torn between ‘what I know I should do’ and ‘what I want to do’. I feel doomed. C.C.
Love is the hardest habit to break,
and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore
Finally the realization has come to get on with my life. You’re not coming back. For a year I’ve lived in a daze; one day after another just a hazy sleepwalk of misery. I may not be able to stop loving you but I have to wake up. Somehow, someway I have to move on. S.T.
As of now, I am moving on.
Through and out, this hard time.
The clouds will clear, and the storm will pass.
Things are looking up, as I raise the mast.
Sailing on, and moving out.
From these dark days, I muster all my clout.
I am ready, to start again.
Just to see, where life begins.
Taken from “Moving On” by Cue Ball
I was so sure I could. You felt the same way. We love each other but when the night came to run away together, we couldn’t do it. Both of us started out to meet up at the station, but each turned around and went home before getting there. We just couldn’t leave our children. K.W.
I guess that’s just part of loving people:
You have to give things up.
Sometimes you even have to give them up.
Lauren Oliver
When you said you loved me, I didn’t realize it came with the disclaimer “unless my ex wants to get back together”. She’ll break your heart & is just using you. When she throws you aside, I won’t be waiting for you with open arms. I could never trust you again like I once did. D.K.
You left me Boundaries of Pain,
Capacious as the Sea,
Between Eternity and Time,
Your Consciousness and me.
From “You Left Me” by Emily Dickinson
Thoughts of you don’t fill my mind constantly anymore, but I still think of you often. I wonder what you’re doing, how you are and if you’re happy. In spite of how things ended up between us you’re forever special to me. I’ll always hold what we shared in great reverence. J.W.
If years from now I see you somewhere,
I will look at you and smile.
I will remember all the good times
we had together.
Unknown
Eventually I got past the grief of you leaving me behind. For the longest time I couldn’t image being with anyone else. Our ending ruined my belief that love conquers all. Now my heart knows what a fragile and delicate state of being loving and being loved back truly is. H.B.
If only you could see the tears
In the world you left behind.
If only you could heal my heart
Just one more time.
Even when I close my eyes
There is an image of your face.
And Once again I come to realize
You are a loss I can’t replace.
From the song
“Why Did You Leave Me”
by Westlife
How foolish I was to believe willing myself not to love you was something I could accomplish. All I did was end up hiding my feelings that eventually erupted and overcame me. I thought I was getting even with you for hurting me, but my denial ended up only hurting me more. P.S.
The walls we build around us
to keep sadness out
also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
I have loved profoundly and been loved deeply a few times in my life. But you, and only you, are the one I loved most. I still dream about you. Frequently I wake up in the morning with thoughts of “us”. Usually I’m happy for what was, but sometimes I am sad for what I lost. K.M.
Within you I lose myself…
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.
Author Unknown
I was wrong to think you saw me as “the one” you loved. I wanted that so badly! So when I’d ask you out and you were kind and sweet to me I thought there was more to it than you intended. You never led me on. I created my broken heart with my own delusion. B.D.
It’s amazing, some people say these small things,
one sentence, and it changes the way you feel about them in an instant.
Small little words that can hurt you so much
or make you fall deeply in love forever.
It changes everything.
Nothing between you is ever really the same again
even if they don’t know it, it still happens.
Unknown
Often I wake knowing I’ve been dreaming of you again. I relive good times or spin new make-believe ones in my subconscious. Then there are dreams when I hear you say again “I love you and forgive you, but can’t forget what you did. I can’t be with you anymore.” A.O.
So bring on the pain
Let it kill your memory
Bring on the rain
Let it drown what’s left of you and me
I know the only way I’m ever gonna make it
Is burying the best of us
Even though it’s killing me
Cause I don’t love you any less
But I can’t love you anymore
From the song “I Can’t Love You Anymore” by Gary Nichols
Broken Hearts Anonymous 