Rebuilding Our Relationship After We’ve Both Gone Too Far

Am I crazy for trying? I never wanted to be normal.

Olivia Love
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4 min readDec 8, 2024

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Rebuilding a relationship marked by both passion and destruction is arduous and takes immense mental fortitude after the deep wounds we have both inflicted on each other. It involves facing not just the pain we’ve caused one another but also confronting the underlying patterns and our own destructive habits that allowed the relationship to veer into harm.

Yet here we are, once again rebuilding this painfully fragile but undeniably alive relationship. Our love, though starkly bruised and cracked, still holds a pulse, a persistent heartbeat with a solid thrum of life. I see now how I’ve hurt you, not only through my dishonesty and my betrayals, but in how I reacted in a way that failed to make you feel safe and caused disproportionate harm to you. My actions have left you with burdens you should never have carried, and the weight of my regret is a shadow companion I cannot ignore.

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You, too, have caused me immense pain, but I recognize my own role in bringing you to reach your breaking point. Though I’ll continue to be haunted by the wrongs you’ve…

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Olivia Love
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Written by Olivia Love

Mother, wellness advocate, healing practitioner, and writer https://linktr.ee/healinglivmama

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