Sometimes the hardest truth is not that they hurt you, but that they are comfortable doing it. Not because they do not know better, but because your forgiveness has made it easy to stay the same. You keep waiting for the version of them that only shows up in apologies, the one who swears they will do better, the one who makes you believe this time will be different. But time does not change people who do not want to change. All waiting does is teach your heart how to tolerate what it never deserved. And one day, you will realize you are not walking away because you stopped caring. You are walking away because you finally started caring about yourself.