Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton

I feel so far behind you and I’m worried you’ll run out of sight.”

“Rip open hearts with your fury and tear down egos with your modesty. Be the person you wish you could be, not the person you feel you are doomed to be. Let yourself run away with your feelings. You were made so that someone could love you. Let them love you.”

“You have to live. You don’t have a choice. You move forward or you go under.”

The big myth of therapy is that it’s all about pointing the blame at other people; but as the weeks passed, I found the opposite to be true.

Eleanor rarely let me pass the accountability on to someone else and always forced me to question what I had done to end up in a particularly bad situation,

I know what it is to love someone and accept that you can’t change certain things about them;