Dear Someone: You are not losing by letting go. You are gaining yourself.

A reminder that sometimes, letting someone go without begging, chasing, or forcing them to return to the way things were is the purest form of self-love.

The following letter is available here as a thread for you to read if you're struggling to let someone go, caught between the desire to pursue them and the need to respect their choice to leave, feeling torn between your heart's longing and your mind's understanding that sometimes the most loving act is to let go.