The wrong dream
From theatrical_muse: What is the greatest sacrifice you've made for love?
It was the other way round for me. I walked away from Vila because I'd had this silly dream of making a fresh start on a new world for years and blown it up into the answer to all my problems and self-hatred. It wasn't. It was two years of boredom and missing him and being angry with him and me, though I can understand now why he didn't come with me. Why would he risk me not loving him in a place he couldn't be the clever thief he thought I loved him for being, especially when he was second choice?
He isn't now. And it's funny: once he found me again, I realised that it isn't new planets that give you another chance at life, but people who see you as the person you can be instead of the failure you thought you were.
Worked for both of us too.