After I Do

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Maybe it doesn’t matter if you need someone during the everyday moments of your life. Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need. Maybe

needing someone isn’t about not being able to do it without them. Maybe needing someone is about it being easier if they are by your side.

seem profound and insightful. Why do we do this? Why do we undervalue things when we have them? Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it?

“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to,”

Just because I can live without him doesn’t mean I want to.

I hate that it doesn’t have the common decency to wait for a profound moment to take something from you.

Look at the things we are capable of in the name of the people we love.