Impulse Screams “Fight for Love” But Intuition Whispers “Let Them Go”
Choosing wisdom over your emotional reaction.
He was breaking up with me. I could tell by the sudden shift in tone. We were laughing together, and then everything changed. My impulse was to stop him — to do anything and everything to prevent the thing I feared from coming to pass. I wanted to remind him that I loved him, to beg him to stay, and to somehow convince him of my worth. But my intuition had another idea entirely.
Instead, I would let him leave if he wanted to go. I would accept his choice when everything inside me wanted to scream, cry, and beg for any other result but this one. That small inner voice insisted that I could not make him love me. I could not convince him we belonged together if he didn’t feel it. And frankly, I was done — at a bone-deep level — of having to convince anyone to see me, know me, and love me.
There’s impulse, and there’s intuition. They aren’t the same.
I could see, on one hand, that making a last-ditch effort to keep the relationship would make me feel like I was achieving something. I could at least say I tried, right? Only my intuition reminded me that begging someone to love me would not make me feel better in the long term.
