It takes a lot more than love to make any relationship work; a tried and tested hypothesis. Eager to understand why things between couples sometimes reach a dead end, I drew from all the real-life stories of failed attempts at making train-wrecks of relationships work-at least from the ones that stuck to my mind. The following are some examples of why things just didn’t work out:
- You grew out of me and I grew out of you.
- I was born to wander; you couldn’t make me stay.
- I woke up one day and realized my self-worth.
- You said we were too different to function, and I thought we were too different to stay apart.
- I craved emotions and you craved a thrill.
- You wanted ‘forever’ and I didn’t believe ‘forever’ even existed.
- Your presence plagued me with self-doubt.
- I refused to be your doormat.
- Attachment became synonymous with suffocation.
- I could no longer make the effort to keep the conversation going.
- We ran out of ways to romanticise the evident, callous truth.
- You changed overnight and I remained the same.
- I changed overnight and you remained the same.
- Your mixed signals only confused and no longer excited me.
- I realized that I convinced myself it was love, when it was a mere attempt at concealing my loneliness.
- I could see my life, five years from now, and you weren’t a part of it.
- I despised liars, you constantly lied, but I still loved you; I could no longer stand my hypocrisy.
- I could no longer hold the weight of both my crippling anxieties and yours on my growingly frail shoulders.
- I ran out of excuses to explain your aloofness.
- I finally understood that all the affection in the world could never make up for my lack of self-love.
