Many people refer to the end of a relationship as when 'love' ends. But, in truth, relationships end all the time but the 'love' still lives on. That's why the many of us that are coming out of a breakup have one major – yet impossible – hurdle that we all try to force ourselves to do: Fall Out of Love.

Unfortunately, we cannot force ourselves to 'unlove' someone any more than we can force ourselves to love someone. And the more we try to fall out of love, the harder we fall even more in love. It's quite an ironic situation, and a bad trick our minds play on us.

What we don't understand is that we don't have to fall out of love – it is perfectly okay to love someone for as long as you want.

~~ Today I will quit trying to magically fall out of love with my ex, and accept the fact that I love them and that, quite possibly, I always will love them.

Today I'll see that love as a gift of my heart, and I will be grateful for my ability to love another. Today I'll understand that I don't have to stop loving someone to let go of them and move on with my life.

Just for today I will allow my love to happen as naturally as I allow my breathing to happen. Just for today I will accept that I love someone and that it's perfectly okay to do this. I can hold onto the love in my heart, yet still let my soul free and my spirit move forward in trusting faith of a new or even better love. ~~

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?" ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love goes to sleep when our partners come home and stays awake when they leave." ~Tigress Luv

"We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter." ~Mignon McLaughlin

"I will love you beyond forever
in every wakeful moment, in every sleeping dream
with all of my heart; with all of my soul
with all my being and all that I am
I will love you beyond the end"
by Tigress Luv