How Do You Get over Someone You’re Still in Love With?
Moving on when the last thing you want to do is let go.
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It is always a shock to the system when we see a celebrity couple like Bill Gates and Melinda Gates or Hugh Jackman and Deborra Jackman announcing a split. After being married for decades, they make the surprise decision to walk away. It’s a heartwrenching thing to witness, and a worse one to experience. Sometimes, a sure thing just doesn’t work out.
Sadly, that’s how it goes with our relationships sometimes. As much as we love someone, it just isn’t the right time, the right person, or the right place. We try to make it work, but things crack and crumble beneath our feet. We’re forced to shut the door and walk away from someone we love very much. What comes next? How do you get over someone you’re still in love with?
Love isn’t always enough to make it work.
Despite what we were sold in fairy tales and romantic comedies, love isn’t always enough to make it work. Life is big, scary, and complicated, and people are just as big, scary, and complicated too. Sometimes we start out in something in good faith…
