stronger for the broken places

[moschus]

When someone treats you badly -- over years -- it leaves you raw and wounded inside.  When you've made repeated overtures of peace to that person only to have your head bitten off -- or to be ignored -- sooner or later you have to come to the realization that this person doesn't care about you and probably never really did (and the signs were there

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[shveta_thakrar]

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Closure

[rep2011]

Amen! I needed to read that. Thanks for writing it.

[planner2015]

Good for you. You are the better person, the whole person, the free one. He may never figure out why he is so miserable, but it's not your problem anymore.

[mallorys_camera]

probably never really did

Don't do that to yourself. You can let go without it. I think really it's only us creative types who have a vested interest in love that lingers -- because in order to be able to write about love, we have to be able to taste it.

I'm sure the person did care. But people change.

Having your head bitten off means there's still some emotion there because love and hate are the same absolute values, just on different ends of the scale of emotions. But ignoring you -- the true opposite of love is indifference.

On another note entirely -- what did you think of this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/amanda-hocking-storyseller.html?_r=4&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all

ouch.

[no_bull_steve]

So true.