Sometimes We Have To Let People Go

Sometimes we have to let people go because the demons in their closets start visiting you in yours
Sometimes we have to let people go because when we offer support it starts to become weaponized,
support that gets probed and picked apart, making you feel like what you’re providing is never enough
Sometimes we have to let people go because as they struggle to regulate themselves they begin to rely on your nervous system to regulate,
some days it may feel like it’s swallowing you whole
Sometimes we have to let people go because we have spent years, or decades, pouring love into them,
only to realize the holes in their cup, are not only there from their traumas, but they’ve punctured more self induced holes along the way
Self sabotage disembodiment prevents love from being absorbed
Sometimes we have to let people go because despite your own gentleness and love, they need much more help than you can provide, but choose, and/or are not ready, to show up for it
Sometimes we have to let people go because we don’t know where their truth ends and their toxicity grows
Sometimes we have to let people go when what once felt like love and support,
now feels jaded and tainted,
feels never good enough
When you were both enough the entire time
But just no longer together.