Dear Someone: Stop mistaking their absence for your unworthiness

Read this if: You’ve been quietly breaking your own heart just to keep someone else whole.

Dear, Dear Someone, _

I know how heavy your heart feels tonight. I know because I’ve carried that weight too. That suffocating ache of giving all you had to someone who left with it anyway. The quiet betrayal of realizing that the hands you trusted most were the same ones that let you fall. I know what it’s like to stay longer than you should have, hoping that maybe this time they’d see you—really see you. But they never did, did they?