Letting go is an act of love when staying requires one or both people to consistently betray themselves. When the cost of the relationship is the loss of who you are. When love has become obligation, and obligation has become resentment.
It's also worth asking: are you letting go of the relationship — or letting go of a version of it that was never quite real? Sometimes what needs releasing is the hope, not the person.
Before you keep reading — when you imagine letting go, what exactly are you releasing? The person, the relationship, or the hope?
Built exactly for this question:
Before you move on — what's one thing that's true for you right now?
"Letting go with love is not giving up. It is the recognition that sometimes the most loving thing you can do — for both of you — is to release what cannot grow."
Every question, eventually, leads here.
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