Reflections: Losing love 47 Articles

by Stacey Lynn Roberts

I was sixteen years old when I fell in love for the first time. The boy was my best friend. The fall was slow and subtle despite the fact that he was a couple years older than I. When we finally landed we landed hard. ...read more

by Nicole Randie

The most beautiful gift, that is what you gave to me. I could smash it on the cold hard floor beneath my feet. Step in the shards and carry the scars forever on the soles of my feet. Every time passing this way reminded...read more

by Thyra Haldis

In remembrance of winter It was a cold night in July, and I had given you my eyes, exclusively, abundantly and unreservedly. Somewhat unabashedly, I suppose, even though around you, I seemed to choke on every syllable. ...read more

by James Mark Machell

I am newly estranged, of love and self. Any hope seems disparaging. While tracking my conscience for the causes of my current ailments I find the acceptation of reality stands as my forerunning complaint. In my bouts of se...read more

by Mubarak Ali

It feels good to just sit here, doing nothing. The breeze comes in intermittently, and there's hardly a sound outside. It's as if the heavy atmosphere has put everyone to sleep. I try to keep my mind blank and close my eye...read more

by Christopher S. Knepper

I've been in love seven times, so far. It's always ended badly. Well, not the last time. Then, it just ended. I've always been exceptionally picky about who I date, but I met someone in early 2003 whose eyes and smile p...read more

by TrinityFromFairyLand

When you let someone go you hope to set him or her free so they can find out who they are. What they don't know is that you hope they'll come and find you when they have finally figured out that age-old question. I set som...read more

by Carmella Dillman

The Lesson. The smile on her face needs to tell the story of her new found power. He's waiting, he's angry, and from the look in his eyes, he can't just leave her here. She's sitting down with her second coffee, light...read more

by Faith Stewart

My very good online friend, Enki asked me a very thought-provoking question a few months back that I hardly ever gave thought to. He asked, "Are you STEADFAST or ADAPTABLE? Are you fixed or flexible to your PHILOSOPHY on t...read more

by Johanna Mount

It is etched in my mind forever! Don't tell me you don't remember. If I think hard enough I can tell you the exact date I finally knew what love felt like. The young, innocent, untarnished, pure love that rushed through my...read more

by Victoria Santiago

The first few months were the toughest. Night after night when I closed my eyes she was all that I would see. The good times seemed to pass so quickly, and the bad seemed to linger until I would awake in a cold sweat thi...read more

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by Kimberly Nires

February 2005 The first time my husband left me was a wet rainy February day, the afternoon before the annual "Father Daughter" dance. He was taking his stepdaughters, my daughters, but he called them his own. He was un...read more

by April's Aria

While I feel that my parents were good and decent people they never prepared me for the roller coaster ride called "falling in and out of love". I grew up in a family with 5 siblings, where there was very little true expre...read more

by Semyon Bronevetsky

- I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling that I was not alone. It was completely quiet. I turned on the light in my room - there was nobody there. It was 3 am, and I only fell asleep at 1am, though I went to bed a...read more

by Patrycja Nowakowska

Dumped: I got dumped some time ago but did not realize it. It wasn't by a lover but more embarrassingly by an ex-love I kept in my life out of affection, attachment etc Dog knows why we intend to be friends with exes; ...read more

by Sonia Ordoyne

IF I . . . If I could go back and change this, would I? I used to think I would, but now I'm not so sure. You're not what I expected at all. You're not the shining brass god I used to worship, just a mere tarn...read more

by Ben Treasure

...from an old velvet chair Sometimes the hardest part is keeping my foot on the gas pedal. Once or twice a week I make this commute, forty-three and two tenths miles north to another dead-end job that I'll end up q...read more

by Anna Bannerman

I closed my eyes just for a second.. Saw our lives in which we shared..thought you'd come back.... All the times of love and laughter. Places we've been and seen TOGETHER....all have been forgotten to you.... We were ...read more

by T. Steele

If I could draw, I would draw images of you in different aspects of your life. I would make sure to get every detail of you and not leave a single stroke out. I would be so careful as to sketch every open pore on your fa...read more

by Jamal El-Amin

What can i say, I'm missing her....longing for her in a way that i have never before. Never for another person, for a specific person, i feel alone again. The depressing kind of loneliness, its been almost 3 weeks by her c...read more