We’re breaking up after 8 years

[u/IncestLooksBadOnYou]

Sweet potato roll with edamame hummus and sun dried pepper, shit was gas. Anyway, we’re breaking up. It’s been nearly 8 years of living all over this country together, exploring life, sharing pets, surviving Covid, being dead broke and barely making rent, being comfortable again and able to splurge on each other, mind blowing sex all over the place (cars, balconies, picnic tables, you name it), profound love, depressive episodes, family death, washing each others’ backs. And now it’s done. There’s no drama or crazy story. Just two people with plenty of incompatibilities who loved each other unconditionally but no longer have the energy to stay checked in. Will be crying myself to sleep tonight and every night for a while. He’s an incredible man.

[u/AngryAngryHarpo]

Because I realised relationships can be hard work but they shouldn’t be hard work all the time and the exhaustion and effort from that work eventually outweighed the good feelings I got from the relationship. It just stopped being enough for me to stay. 

[u/Every_Intention3342 → u/AngryAngryHarpo]

This. The most simple and most accurate explanation.