breakups

When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.

How?
Around a month ago, my partner told me that he was no longer happy in our relationship and that he was depressed. We both decided it was the "winter blues." Up until a few days ago, I had thought that this was the truth.
By No Way8 years ago in Humans
The Day I Realized My Worth
It's been months. The last time we talked, I poured my heart out and I am picking up the bits that are on the floor. I don't think I ever knew what love was until I met you.
By that girl8 years ago in Humans
Sable
Leafless trees and mountains were all Sable could see out the window of the Grand Cherokee. She consciously stilled herself from fidgeting in his car. Such a pretty, fancy car. Wouldn't want her dirtying it up.
By Faith Ackerman8 years ago in Humans
Everything I Could Never Tell You
Years from now I will look back on this and I will completely hate some of myself. We wasted so much time trying to make things perfect that we forgot how to live in the moment and be free spirits and I’m sorry for that. I’m sorry that I pushed you so far and brought you face to face with the worst versions of yourself, almost as though I didn’t have demons of my own. I’m sorry I drank way too much and stayed out way too late, and I’m sorry I didn’t prepare for our future enough. I’m sorry that you expected me to be a little more gentle that one time I cut you with my tongue whilst you shattered in front of my tear-stained eyes. I’m sorry I didn’t sacrifice more, and I’m sorry that there were times when you were not my top priority. I’m sorry that I didn’t cry enough and I’m so, fucking, sorry that I wasn’t who you needed me to be sometimes. I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to empathise with you and I’m sorry for every time I made you feel as though you were not good enough. I’m sorry that I didn’t fight enough and I’m sorry I dragged you through hell and promised you heaven at the end of it because we’re way deeper into something so dark and lonely than I ever imagined we could have been.
By Lauren Elizabeth8 years ago in Humans
Never Saw It Coming
He walked in. I went for a kiss. He turned his head. I was confused. He said we need to talk. I crumbled from the inside out. He said it's not you, it's me. I said if it's you, shouldn't this be my decision? He said "I put you through too much, I can't do what you do for me." This is true.
By Hannah Elliott8 years ago in Humans
Falling out of Love
Sometimes love fades away in a relationship, and it's hard to leave the person you once thought was your forever, but things change, people change, and you feel it's time to finally let go.
By Short Storm .8 years ago in Humans
Do You See Me
Beautiful, toxic, happy, anxious—all words to describe my most recent relationship that ended. After half a year of loving and learning, things came to quick end. I didn't realize the stress of sacrifice. Sacrifice is essential, yeah? At least that's the advice I heard from everyone around me. But what happens when you're sacrificing in all the wrong ways? When it isn't a sacrifice because you're being selfless, it's a sacrifice because you're under someone else's control.
By Zare Atlas8 years ago in Humans
Why I'm Struggling with My Breakup
My ex and I broke up roughly a month ago and prior to that, we had been on-and-off since April of last year. So, in all honesty, I should've seen the big breakup coming. Of course, I was oblivious to the signs and I ignored my good ole' female intuition. For the sake of this article, I'll call my ex by his middle name, Micheal.
By Tanzania Thomas8 years ago in Humans
The Truth About Cheating
Today, we're going to be talking about what happens when someone cheats on you. But regardless of whether or not you've been cheated on, this will help you move forward after a breakup in a healthier way.
By Kyle Kong8 years ago in Humans
Side Door. Top Story - February 2018.
Do you remember the night we met? We barely said a word, just danced. You asked for my name and I told you. I asked for yours, you replied, but the music drowned it out. Later you'd tell me how every time you looked at me I'd blush. Your fingertips pressed into my skin, your kiss was addictive. My heart was racing, no one had ever touched me like that, wanted me like that. I liked it.
By writing8 years ago in Humans
The End of an Era
This archive of letters once meant everything to me. Everyday I rushed to the mailbox hoping to find one of these babies waiting for me. Of course, these in this photo only span back to the last eight or so years. The archive would have been much larger except over the last 22 years and moving around as much as I had. I ended up losing some. These letters were from my once true love, Kevin.
By Sarah Toto8 years ago in Humans
What Nobody Told Me About Break-Ups
You never really see it coming. One day you're sitting on your old, worn-down couch that could barely fit the two of you, with your head leaning on his shoulder; the next, you're sitting on that same couch, only everything feels different. What once felt like a couch made for an ant, now feels like a couch meant for an elephant with space you can't fill on your own. That shoulder you leaned on is absent and propping you up is that near-empty box of tissues as you're wrapped in the blanket that smells ever so slightly like him.
By Julia M8 years ago in Humans