i guess the love i’m currently experiencing really makes me see how toxic and codependent my last relationship was. it was filled with crazy ups and downs and emotions so strong it honestly felt like i was on drugs. and i remember thinking wow, this is what true love must feel like, because it’s so intense. this is what all the books and movies and songs are about. and all the heartache is worth it because in the end we’ll be together!!!
turns out in the end we wouldn’t be together. and that might be one of the better things to have happened to me. he broke my heart in a wild and relentless way and it got me sick. like i honest to god was physically sick, for weeks. and then he apologized and i forgave and continued to try to fix him. after that things just didn’t go back to how they were and he just slowly... ghosted me. after a 3 year “relationship”. and i thought i’d NEVER get over it and that i’d never find another love like that, so dedicated, so devoted; a love like worship.
i’ve something better now. it might not be full of rollarcoaster-like ups and downs, i might not feel like i’m on heroin when we’re together. but he doesn’t leave me lying awake worried. he doesn’t give up on me, time after time after time. i’m not a secret, to anyone. he tells me he loves me all the time and he does, and i feel it and it’s good. and we fight and sometimes it gets bad, but we apologize and move on. i’m not lying awake in the middle of the night crying over a message i never received, or another missed skype call, or the girl he fell in love with. instead we go to bed together, we fall asleep together, we wake up together; and in the morning, after his alarm goes off, he’ll snooze for 10 minutes just so we can cuddle and i’ll lie there and think, yes, this is it. this is what love is meant to feel like.