
The girl I spent 7 years of my life with, the girl I almost married, the girl I had a child and started a family with, decided to leave me under the understanding that she was only leaving temporarily, that she just needed time apart and that she had every intention of coming back.
In 12 days, it will have been one year since. I tried everything I could to rebuild our relationship. I went through a terrible depression, completely loathed myself, and had constant thoughts of suicide. I was coming close to making everything work out, completely turned my life around for this girl and our son so we could all be a family again. About a month ago, things greatly started to improve and she was even about to come back and were were going to be together again. Everything I had worked for in the last year was finally about to pay off, but in the end I ended up getting hurt once again.
Today I got my son for christmas eve and she came to pick him up after work. Having us all together made me feel so down, rather than being happy in that moment, all I could think about was how things will never be like this ever again. When they left I completely lost it. In an instant I went from being happy and content to feeling absolutely miserable. We started texting and she asked me what was wrong, so I told her.
She told me that I should start trying to date other people. It completely broke my heart to see that from her. For a year I held out hope that she still wanted to be with me, that she still loved me, that she wanted our family together again. She's pretty much telling me that I should move on at this point. I can't move on. I can't just let go of a 7 year long relationship. Trust me, over the last year I've tried as hard as I could to move on, to accept that she isn't coming back. Even if I wanted to move on, even if I tried, she would always be in the back of my mind. I could never love anyone else the way they deserve to be.
So now I will be spending christmas alone, one week later I will be spending my birthday alone, and then 6 days after that constantly reminded that one year ago that day I lost everything that mattered most to me forever. It was also 3 years ago today that we decided that we were going to get married. So that kind of makes this all sting a little bit extra.