Of course, I knew there would come a time in my life that I would realize that I don’t need you, I would realize that I’m better off without you. I knew that that time would come, I just never expected it to come so soon.

I remember only months ago planning my life out with you. I remember thinking about our future. I remember all of it.

Yet here I am a few months later, and I’m okay. I know I don’t need you anymore. I know that I’ll always love you – that’s inevitable – but I realize now that I don’t need you, I never truly did.

Love makes you think and do crazy things. It made me think that I had to be with you, I had to have you in my life, I couldn’t be without you. And you know, maybe for a time that was true. Maybe there was a time that I did need you. I needed you so that later on in life I could realize that I didn’t.

I struggled with that for a while. I struggled with you leaving. I constantly thought to myself, “What is wrong with me? Why was I not enough? Why couldn’t I make you want to stay?”

Nothing is wrong with me, I am more than enough, and I didn’t need to make you stay.

I’m realizing now that the only thing that was wrong was that we thought we were 100% right for one another.

I realize that I am more than enough for someone, you’re just not that someone.

I didn’t need to make you stay. I should never have to convince someone to be with me. You were right to leave because now someone will come along someday and the thought of leaving will never even cross their mind.

So here’s to me realizing what I should’ve realized the moment you left: I’m okay without you and I don’t need you. Not now, not then, not ever again.