When you're pulling away from them-when you feel that emotional wall slowly building up between you two-you wish they'd do something to change the outcome. But they don't. They just watch it happen: the drifting apart, the long silences, the disruption of routine, the fading curiosity for each other. And maybe that hurts more than anything else. The knowledge that they wouldn't do anything to make you stay. That if you walked away, they would just let you go. They wouldn't blink twice, run after you, or put up a fight. The wall only grows deeper from there. The wall keeps growing, turning two people-who made promises to each other-strangers once again.