How it feels like to suddenly lose your other half.
When you’re in love, it consumes you. It’s all you think about. Even when you aren’t thinking about it, you’re still thinking about it. Matters of the heart are a strange byproduct of the human condition. Love saturates your heart, feeds it something it never knew it needed but now is desperate to be quenched by it. When your lover isn’t near, you want him or her. You long for your partner’s touch, even when his or her hand has just left your cheek. You are addicted to your partner’s scent. You find yourself in the happiest, most exquisitely peaceful state when you lie in your partner’s bed and can smell him or her on the sheets. You’re so happy you found someone. You finally found someone you can see yourself with forever. Finally, the universe threw you a bone. Every day is a beautiful adventure. The thought of it ending feels like knives… Losing your lover begins slowly. Everything was perfect one day, and like a shift in the seasons, suddenly a...