If They Don’t Value Your Presence, Respond With Your Absence
Stop carrying the relationship on your back and watch it cease to exist altogether.
By Molly Burford
When you fall for someone you believe is full of potential and are so sure could be something real, it is very easy to ignore the evidence that begins to suggest otherwise.
For example, maybe everything started out great but then one day their energy shifted. Their tone changed when they spoke to you and the way they looked at you wasn’t the same either. They stopped asking you questions and their replies to your texts became more sporadic and less engaged. They only seemed to be “available” when they would benefit in some way, or if you were the only option they had left.
Over time, this person you saw as the real thing began to look more like a bygone thing, a distant thing, an “I don’t know, maybe?” thing.
And yet, that damn rose-gold hope you felt at the beginning still feels too promising to look away from. You can’t let yourself lose sight of the fact that, at one point, they put in more than the bare minimum and went out of their way to let you know they were interested and present. That they saw you as something real, too.
