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Do You Cling To Relationships Long After They Have Ended?

Deidré Wallace
3 min readSep 13, 2022

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Do You Cling To Relationships Long After They Have Ended?

Sometimes we forget to trust our intuition. Sometimes we don’t read or want to know the signs — the signs that a certain relationship or friendship is not actually serving its purpose anymore.

Some people stay with us forever, and others only stay for a short while.

Some people come into your life and you just know they are irreplaceable and others — are not quite the same.

Somehow we forget this and instead of reading the signs we often cling to a relationship that is either unhealthy, destructive or not doing much for us.

Trying to rekindle a relationship by clinging, begging or hounding someone is embarrassing to say the least. No matter how painful the end of a relationship might be — it is usually no use trying to restart what has already failed. Doing this loses people’s respect and even if they do decide to stay, they often either land up resenting you or they leave soon after anyway.

And people grow in different directions and allowing people to breathe without holding onto them — allows you to grow too.

Sometimes we just need to accept that it’s time to move on. This could equally apply to our careers and any situation we find ourselves in.
How many times have you heard people say, ‘If it wasn’t for this or the other, I wouldn’t…

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Deidré Wallace
Deidré Wallace

Written by Deidré Wallace

As a Relationship/Corporate Therapist, I help highly effective people understand exactly how and why we choose our relationships: www.relationshipknowledge.com

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