Being in a relationship is great. You meet someone who spins your world upside down and you want to learn everything about them. You go to bed at night thinking about them, and you wake up with a smile on your face because they’re yours. No matter what age you are, the sweetness of being in a relationship is contagious, and you can’t help but smile when you find someone that you think is made just for you.

But what happens if forever turns into the end?

When you date someone, the term “breaking up” is out of your vocabulary. You fall head over heels for the guy or the girl in your class with the pretty brown eyes, and once you get them, you can’t imagine being without them. But like any relationship with anyone in your life, fights and arguments are bound to happen. Jealousy, the green eyed monster, sprouts out of one’s own insecurities and blinds you. One argument can lead to another, and the honey moon stage of your relationship shatters like glass, revealing the all too real reality that is love.

The truth is, not all relationships are meant to last. No matter how hard we fall for someone, shit happens, and either you or your partner can begin to have a change of heart, and that sucks. But what also sucks is the fact that the people we love in life aren’t always the ones who are meant to stay. We can fall in love with someone and hand ourselves to them, but that doesn’t mean they’re the person that we were meant to be with forever.

People come and go, and unfortunately, so do feelings, but that’s not the only reason relationships end. It’s true when they say that you can outgrow people. If you meet someone at a young age, as time goes by, your mentality changes, and you begin to realize that you and your partner may not have as much in common anymore. Even then, some people choose to push through the relationship. What I’ve heard from plenty of people is that they fight to not break up because if this was a marriage, you wouldn’t be able to just divorce someone whenever you disagreed. I mean, you could, but, let’s not.

The truth about forever is that none of us will ever be able to define what forever really means. When we love someone, we tell them that we’ll stay together forever, but that’s not always how it is. Even if we stay with someone until the end of our lives, forever is replaced with death, illness, and other things. But even with that being said, don’t let this discourage you from meeting someone. Whether or not you believe in soul mates, there is someone out there who shares your interests and is sitting at their desk, lying on their bed, or driving on their way to work, thinking about how they’re dying to meet you. Life is the longest thing we do, but it’s too short to waste it being afraid of not getting our “forever.”