breakups

When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.

Falling out of Love
Sometimes love fades away in a relationship, and it's hard to leave the person you once thought was your forever, but things change, people change, and you feel it's time to finally let go.
By Short Storm .8 years ago in Humans
Do You See Me
Beautiful, toxic, happy, anxious—all words to describe my most recent relationship that ended. After half a year of loving and learning, things came to quick end. I didn't realize the stress of sacrifice. Sacrifice is essential, yeah? At least that's the advice I heard from everyone around me. But what happens when you're sacrificing in all the wrong ways? When it isn't a sacrifice because you're being selfless, it's a sacrifice because you're under someone else's control.
By Zare Atlas8 years ago in Humans
Why I'm Struggling with My Breakup
My ex and I broke up roughly a month ago and prior to that, we had been on-and-off since April of last year. So, in all honesty, I should've seen the big breakup coming. Of course, I was oblivious to the signs and I ignored my good ole' female intuition. For the sake of this article, I'll call my ex by his middle name, Micheal.
By Tanzania Thomas8 years ago in Humans
The Truth About Cheating
Today, we're going to be talking about what happens when someone cheats on you. But regardless of whether or not you've been cheated on, this will help you move forward after a breakup in a healthier way.
By Kyle Kong8 years ago in Humans
Side Door. Top Story - February 2018.
Do you remember the night we met? We barely said a word, just danced. You asked for my name and I told you. I asked for yours, you replied, but the music drowned it out. Later you'd tell me how every time you looked at me I'd blush. Your fingertips pressed into my skin, your kiss was addictive. My heart was racing, no one had ever touched me like that, wanted me like that. I liked it.
By writing8 years ago in Humans
The End of an Era
This archive of letters once meant everything to me. Everyday I rushed to the mailbox hoping to find one of these babies waiting for me. Of course, these in this photo only span back to the last eight or so years. The archive would have been much larger except over the last 22 years and moving around as much as I had. I ended up losing some. These letters were from my once true love, Kevin.
By Sarah Toto8 years ago in Humans
What Nobody Told Me About Break-Ups
You never really see it coming. One day you're sitting on your old, worn-down couch that could barely fit the two of you, with your head leaning on his shoulder; the next, you're sitting on that same couch, only everything feels different. What once felt like a couch made for an ant, now feels like a couch meant for an elephant with space you can't fill on your own. That shoulder you leaned on is absent and propping you up is that near-empty box of tissues as you're wrapped in the blanket that smells ever so slightly like him.
By Julia M8 years ago in Humans
Letter to My Ex
To my ex: The times that I think about you get less and less. I am 99.9 percent over you. The .1 percent I don't think will ever go away. I will always have love for you. But I am not in love with you. I also don't care for you the way I did anymore. It still amazes me that someone who was such a big part of your life just becomes a face you know in the crowd and distant memories. That you go from talking every second of every day before you even got together, to not talking at all.
By Collen Patrice8 years ago in Humans
Is It My Fault?
So I met this guy, let's call him... Denny. I met Denny through Instagram, and he followed me, so I followed him back, then he added me on Snapchat and started talking to me. At first I was like okay.....
By Maya Camren8 years ago in Humans
Sleep Fast
"And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness." ~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed~
By Estelle T8 years ago in Humans
Dear Love {That Isn't to Be}
There is so much I wish to say to you in person. But since this cannot be, I will try my best to adequately express my feelings and thoughts via this letter.
By J. R.8 years ago in Humans
Oh Valentine's Day, a Dirty Vixen of Excitement and Disappointment
Now, I know I'm posting two days late, but I wasted an hour of my time and I'll steal some of yours if you... take... this... bait... 🤔🤗😅😚
By Rowan Buckton8 years ago in Humans