#grievingwhatneverwas

You weren't in love with them. You were in love with the possibility of them — the version they never became. The one you waited for anyway. It wasn’t love. It was a promise your heart wrote on their behalf. And sometimes, the hardest part isn't letting go of the person — it's grieving the future you built around who they could have been. The love you imagined together doesn’t die all at once. It fades — every time you realize they are not the person you needed. And healing begins the moment you stop rewriting their story, and start rewriting your own.