If Love is real, it must by definition prove to be eternal. You invariably and naturally equate genuine relationships with life-long relationships.

Therefore it seems impossible to interpret the ending of a union after only a limited period as something other than a problem, a failure and an emotional catastrophe that is someone’s fault, probably your own.

You appear fundamentally unable to trust that a relationship could be at once sincere, meaningful and important and at the same time fairly and guiltlessly limited in its duration.

You need to have an account of Love which allows that a relationship can end without anyone having viciously or pathologically killed it prematurely.

Only against such a backdrop can you reduce the bitterness, guilt and blame.

How you see the endings of Love depends to a critical extent on what Society tells is ‘normal’.

If it was meant to last forever, every ending will by necessity have to be described as a horrifying failure.

If you allow imaginative space for short-term Love, then an ending may signal a deeper loyalty.

Not to setting up of a home and domestic routines, but to a deep appreciation and admiration one felt for someone for a time.

You will walk away with a fair and generous sense of all that has been preserved and enhanced by the relationship not being forced to last forever.

Hush, hush
Don’t say a word
The faint cries can hardly be heard
A storm lies beyond the horizon, barely
Don’t stop
Sweep through the days
Like children that can’t stay awake
Stay here untainted and say …

Stay while the melody’s sung
Break like a wave on the run
I do be sure I can’t say anymore
I just know that it won’t last forever

Rush, rush
Take me away
Like hourglass sand that never escapes
Stars are born and then die, but carefree
A small clock that ticks without time
And watched by an ocean of eyes
Ending, ascending and then …

Stay while the melody’s sung
Break like a wave on the run
I do be sure I can’t say anymore
I just know that it won’t last forever
I just know that it won’t last forever …