The Blood & The Bones

Sometimes, even though it hurts more than you can imagine, you have to be so cruel to the people you need to cut ties with in order to really sever them. You do this not because it’s your true self. Not because you want to inflict pain unnecessarily but because, if you do not, they will keep finding their way back to you. And the never ending cycle begins again. You both walk away with less and less of yourselves and those holes are then filled with regret, hurt, disappointment, fear and self-doubt. Eventually you become nothing but that. And, if you truly love them the way you know you do then you can’t let that happen.

And so you become the evil one. You do what you must. You use your words to stop the ride. It hurts beyond belief to rip apart someone you love but you do it to give them their life back and to regain your own. To stop the what-ifs and maybes. To set you both free. You become the monster they never want to return to.

And this is what it means to be cruel to be kind.

LL~