How I Knew I Loved Her — And Why I Left Her Behind
Following my intuition put me on the right path — which led to the right person.
“You’ll meet someone,” my colleague said on my last day in the office, just days before I would set out on the journey of a lifetime.
“You know I have a partner, right?”
I brushed him off. I was in the healthiest relationship of my life. She was smart, kind, beautiful — everything a great partner was supposed to be.
But he gave an all-knowing smile.
“You’ll see.”
It was easy to dismiss my colleague’s prophecy as some fantasy he was projecting.
It stuck with me though. I carried it as I walked around the coast of Great Britain.
To walk the coast or not became a loaded decision between following a path I intuitively knew was right for me or continuing with an unfulfilled life of how I was expected to live.
And perhaps deep down, I hoped that choosing to realign my life and pursue my passions would attract someone right for me.
The walk was everything I hoped it would be, and more.
I was living my authentic self, and so when I made connections with people along the way, they…
