WillowRain
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ORIGINAL: mmb1 I am just trying to understand how releasement if you both love each other is in both's "best interest", rather than sticking it out, expecting that with any relationship, there are ups and downs? Love isn't always enough to keep a relationship going. >Edited because my typing skills suck. Love is a powerful emotion and it can bridge a great number of things, but not everything. Love can't bridge two people that have foundationally different moral sets and structures, just to offer up one issue. Sometimes something as simple and impractical as putting a health nut and a cheeseburger scarfing smoker in the same house can be an impossible combination. Or say one person who is vanilla, with another who has a complete passion for the lifestyle. It is completely possible, happens every day, to love someone deeply, to find great beauty and joy in them, and have utterly no chance of living with them in a way that would bring happiness to either person. It is a great sorrow when anyone comes to this kind of realization. Sometimes it's not about the other person being "bad" or "evil" or "wrong", sometimes you just come to the painful conclusion that there isn't a path you can both go on that will lead to mutual happiness. In that situation it is best to let go, even though it hurts like a mo fo.
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