I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.