They all promise it will get better, but it doesn't show up right away. People think that when you walk away from someone, you're supposed to feel instant peace. Well, you don't What you usually feel is a strange silence. An empty phone. No one to text about your day. At first, you feel that space, like you've broken something that actually mattered, like you've been the villain the whole time. But the truth is that missing someone doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. Really. It just means they truly mattered to you. Yes, you can miss them and still know they weren't right for you. Two opposite truths, that can coexist. That's what makes your experience so confusing: your heart feels the loss while your mind tries to make sense of the logic. We often mistake pain for a sign that we should go back. But what if you didn't follow it? What if the ache isn't proof that you messed up? Maybe it's proof you cared, and the pain is the cost of choosing what's right. If they were meant to stay, you wouldn't have had to fight so hard to keep them. If it was supposed to work, it would have. So when the silence feels heavy, remember that you're not clearing space because it feels good. You're clearing it because maybe staying would have cost you more.