00:00Why do you think you're still holding on to someone who caused you so much pain?
00:04Because for a while, they were the only thing that didn't feel empty.
00:09Even the pain made me feel connected to something.
00:12I know they hurt me. I know I deserved better.
00:15But letting go of them felt like letting go of the version of me that still believed I could be loved.
00:20Sometimes we don't grieve the person.
00:22We grieve the story we were trying to write with them.
00:25The almost, the hope, the imagined ending.
00:28And part of me still wants them to come back and finally be the person they never were.
00:34Even if they come back, Anna, would they be coming back for the real you?
00:38Or for the version of you who kept shrinking to make it work?
00:41So how do I let go?
00:42You remind yourself, love should never feel like survival.
00:46And missing someone doesn't mean they were meant to stay.
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