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You share a bed, a home, a life—and you've never felt more alone. This loneliness doesn't make sense on paper, which is part of what makes it so heavy.
Love isn't the only question. You can care deeply about someone and still recognize that staying is costing you both. Leaving isn't a failure of love—it's a recognition that love alone isn't enough.
You've shrunk your needs so many times you've forgotten their original shape. But the problem was never that you wanted too much. It's that you kept asking someone who couldn't give it.
You think you're keeping the peace. But every conversation you don't have builds a wall between you and the person you're protecting the relationship from.
You've tried patience. You've tried understanding. You've tried being enough for both of you. At some point, you have to ask what all this effort is actually changing.