HOW DO YOU KNOW? Darling soul, how do you know it was the right decision even if it slices the most tender part of your heart? You know because with their departure, a visceral aura of peace infiltrates your bones, and you can finally breathe for the first time in years. You know because you deserve better, so much better. You know because you finally feel acceptance, not resistance. You know because your intuition proved to be solid, and the nightmares were foreshadowings of truths left untold. You know it's over when secrets have been kept for too long, surfacing in moments that should have been reserved for purity, for celebration, for loyalty of a love now lost. Darling soul, you know it's over when the thought of them with someone else no longer hurts, when you know they will never find better because the grass on the other side was always a manipulative, immoral wasteland. You will know when it's time to let go when the future you envisioned fades with the breeze, and you feel hopeful, not devastated, that the life you deserve is out there, waiting to be lived.