1-1-1: rising above the heartbreak

read the seven steps I've used to stop romanticizing people who hurt me.

march, 2025

edition 69.

as I sat down to write this, hearts don’t break around here by ed sheeran began playing. you know what? no. hearts do break around here, but a broken heart is not the end of the story. the more important, the more interesting part, is what we do when we fall for the wrong person and we’re left to pick up the pieces by ourself. what then?

to love is the most raw form of vulnerability. to love is to show someone the deepest parts of you and hope they say “I love you not despite your flaws, but because of them.” and sometimes the act of loving doesn’t work out (trust me, I would know, I’m a pisces). and that’s okay, right? it’s okay — it has to be.

(spoiler alert: it is. it always is.)

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