What the hell is ‘a break?’ It’s somewhere between ‘I love you’ and ‘this isn’t enough.’ It’s breaking up without giving up. It’s the ‘I still want to be with you but not right now.’ It’s the ‘I need some time.’
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It’s not fair. It’s indefinite. It’s hanging on when you feel like letting go. It’s a pause but not quite the end.
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When you tell people you and your significant other are on a break the first thing you see is the judgment in their eyes you know they’ll just tell you to end it. As if it were that easy because it isn’t always just that easy to give up, to move on, to forgive and forget. With a break up there’s no chance of it getting better so you take a break and you stick around. You tough it out through the break, hoping for more, praying for the day it gets better, and fast-forwarding to back together. But still people interfere and try to give you their advice; but is it really helpful if they just tell you to quit? Only you know your relationship. Only you know what’s best for you. Whether that’s to break up or hold on, there’s always that hope of something better. So when everyone tells me to break up I sit there and think,
‘What if it’s not in me to break my own heart?’
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