
… feeling of being stuck. Even when you’re not. Still, people choose this path, more often than not, because letting go is hard. Starting over is grueling. Adjusting to a new day-to-day life will almost always be daunting. People find comfort in consistency — even if that consistency is repetitive bullshit.
We hadn’t been drawn to each other by accident; there was a deep, unconscious psychological need we served for one another. And when I reviewed the few other friendships I’d had that had unfolded like this, I noticed an unnerving pattern.