I Thought Our Unconventional Love Story Would Last Forever—Until Life Revealed a Painful Truth

that an ending does not erase what came before it.

The relationship mattered.

The love mattered.

The years were not wasted simply because they did not become forever.

That idea helped me stop measuring the relationship only by its ending.

Something can be meaningful without being permanent.

Some of the most important experiences in our lives shape us precisely continue reading …