Amongst the saddest things in life, is the end of a relationship. It could be any relationship – the sorrow is different, but it is still sorrow.<\/p>\n
Why do relationships break up? Maybe they were never meant to be, maybe you outgrow the other party, maybe you got into to it for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n
In most cases relationships don’t start or end in a blaze of glory. In most cases you have drifted into one, and it is most likely they whimper into nothingness.<\/p>\n
How do you know it is the end ? It starts when you stop having conversations, because every conversation turns into combat. Soon, there are no safe zones left – all that is left is to reminisce about the past – ‘tujhe yaad hai<\/em> ‘ type of conversations. It’s almost as if you are using the past to camouflage the emptiness of today. It continues when you start running down the other party – their ideas, their dreams, their aspirations, their friends, and it dies – when neither can let the other grow and in fact stand in the way of growth.<\/p>\n Sometimes, we let memories hold us behind. Sometimes, we think that it can get better – after all, there was a time that there was something to write home about – can it be recaptured, can it be salvaged?<\/p>\n But, then you ask the other question – is it really, really worth salvaging. Is this what you want for the next one, two, five, ten years? Can you really be happy with the level of compromises that you are making to maintain a status quo – and to what end is this status quo – is it to prove to the world that you have managed a long running relationship, is it to prove to friends that you aren’t a failure, is it to family that you handle things on your own ? Is it because you can’t handle pity or sympathy – or is it that you are afraid of going it alone, or is it that you feel that you are too old to start again ?<\/p>\n Somehow, whatever you decide – there is going to be hurt. the question is – should it be a short, sharp cut or a slow whimper into nothingness ? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amongst the saddest things in life, is the end of a relationship. It could be any relationship – the sorrow is different, but it is still sorrow. Why do relationships break up? Maybe they were never meant to be, maybe you outgrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-finally"],"yoast_head":"\n