I remember at the points we had our most difficult moments, you reverted to habitual thinking. You'd said things like "you never loved me" and "you never trusted me" - nothing could be further from the truth.

I did love you immensely the more I got to know you. I did trust you implicitly from the start. The problem was that as I attempted to deepen and expand that bond between us, the fact that you resisted these attempts, balked at suggestions of further and deeper communication and openness between us... when you gave hesitant and resistant responses to this, it started to pose questions about what you were saying vs what you were doing.

When a person doesn't want what you want, that's okay. But when they're telling you they want something, and acting contrary to what they say they want, it starts to erode that trust.

To simply truncate everything and say "you never loved me" is to miss the point. It wasn't a lack of love; it was the way your conduct contradicted your words that eroded the trust and love that had been built up.

To oversimplify the situation to "you never loved me" takes all the nuance out of the issue. This way, there's no space for self-reflection, no room for discussion, understanding and compromise. We can just close out this chapter and never learn from it, never grow and become better people.

Feel free to miss the point: it'll make sense eventually. I look forward to the day when you can love a person with your whole self, without needing to hide. If you trusted me enough to be upfront and honest with me, we could've weathered anything together.

The fact that we didn't, says that we weren't meant to be; we were meant to merge for a time, and that's all.

Safe travels, stranger.