A good reminder

Resentment builds and is a vicious cycle - "I'm not getting what I want/need, so I refuse to give you anything you want/need" Communication is broken, people either don't discuss the tough issues or they don't listen each other. Fights and arguments just make people shutdown and react in an automatic way.

A relationship is an entity - a living, breathing thing. You can't just create one and let it exist, believing it will survive and thrive on it's own. You have to be actively involved in making it work, just being present isn't enough.

Better Times

I feel you - pain in my heart, vice like grip in my chest. Won't you leave? No, stay a while so that I can memorize how much this hurts, how it hurts, why it hurts, where it hurts I can't keep the tears inside, they force their way through like a wild, unruly river. They say it's good to cry and I want to believe them, but the pain gripping my chest? Is this pain just you taking back the pieces of your heart one by one? I can feel each piece as it's removed. Why must you? Please, leave them there... don't go, don't change, don't fade away into nothing! Nothing lasts forever, but I never expected 'nothing' to ever end. OH ENDINGS! I can hardly stand you!

I'll collect these tears to one day make a sparkling necklace of salt crystals.