When Love Doesn’t Choose You Back

Thought Catalog
3 min readNov 9, 2021
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By Kirsten Corley

Anyone who doesn’t choose you cannot possibly be meant for you. It seems like an easy concept. But when the heart is involved, logic and reasoning don’t matter. Because in one moment, you’re future with this person is one you thought would become a reality then the next you’re struggling to put together pieces of how you even got there in the first place and was there some detail you missed as you run over the past few weeks to months before everything changed?

The truth is when something ends, and you come across a love that stops being reciprocated, that is someone recognizing within themselves, they aren’t supposed to feel the way they do. It’s that person realizing you deserve someone whose feelings match yours in the same intensity. When love stops choosing you, that isn’t the moment you try and prove you deserve their love; that’s the moment you step away and say, “I deserve someone who will pick me.” And that is what you deserve, someone who chooses you every single day without hesitation or doubt.

The truth is when you come across a love that stops choosing you, that’s not a love that was going to last. As much as love is about timing and being in the right place at the right time, it’s also two people coming to the table and choosing one another and not quitting just because things got complicated and…

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