HOW TO LET GO OF SOMEONE YOU LOVED: Stop checking if they viewed your status. Stop checking if they miss you. If they did, you’d know. Mute their name, their posts, their presence. It’s okay if that feels like a small death. Grieve the version of you who loved them too much. Forgive yourself for staying longer than you should’ve. Delete the chats you scroll through at night. Stop rereading old messages looking for signs they cared. They left. They knew what they were doing. Let that be the closure. Cry if you have to. Scream into your pillow. Feel every ounce of the heartbreak. It’s not weak to hurt. What’s weak is pretending you don’t. Don’t punish yourself for still caring. Don’t confuse missing them with needing them. Missing them doesn’t mean you should go back. Think about how you felt when they made you feel invisible. Think about how often you had to ask to be chosen. Stop stalking their new life, it will only break you. Start focusing on yours, even if it feels empty. Feel the emptiness fully. Don’t rush to fill it. Make peace with the silence. Talk to your friends about everything, even the parts you’re ashamed of. Stop waiting for closure from them. Some people never give it, and that’s its own kind of answer. Write until it stops hurting. Cry again, if you need to. But keep going. Healing is not pretty, but it’s honest. Let the pain visit, then let it leave. Don’t look for them in everyone else and if you do, forgive yourself. Let yourself fall apart. But also put yourself back together, piece by piece, day by day. Remind yourself that you were whole before them, and you will be whole again after them. Stop trying to win them back. Win yourself back. That’s who’s worth fighting for.✨