I want to close the door.

 *I honor what we had, the rare resonance between us. I know it was real, and I know it changed me. But I release myself from waiting for you to change. I release myself from carrying the hope that you will one day step fully into my life.

I cannot keep giving my love in fragments, or offering my strength where there is no commitment. You have chosen your way. I choose mine.

I do not close the door with bitterness. I close it with clarity. I return to myself — to the woman I am, to the life I am building, to the love I deserve.

If one day our paths meet again, it will be on new terms, with both of us free and whole. Until then, I step forward without you. I carry myself, and I am enough.*