If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

You should not complain, it's not attractive.

Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.