Holly Riordan

Making a commitment is about trusting someone else with your whole heart. It's about tearing down your walls. It's about letting someone else inside, even though it's scary. It's about putting your trust into another person. It's about pouring all of your love into them.

He said he was sorry. He promised he was never going to make the same mistake again. Even though it's not the first time he screwed up, he seemed genuinely upset about hurting you this time. His apology seemed authentic this time.

When you break up with someone, you aren't breaking one big habit. You are breaking a million little habits. 

Don't play with her emotions. Don't sneak behind her back. Don't make her wonder what she did wrong, why she wasn't enough for you. Don't leave her with self-esteem issues, abandonment issues, and trust issues.

You have to make the conscious decision to change, to better yourself, to put your past in the past.

Don't settle for someone you have to put on an act around. Don't settle for someone who makes you feel like you have to hold back your weirdness in order to be accepted. Don't settle for someone who wants a cardboard version of you instead of the real deal. 

I can't figure out why you would stop talking to me out of nowhere.

When you love someone, you make mistakes together. You take steps backward together. You recover together. You fumble through the world together.

Everyone keeps telling me to forgive you. They tell me it will help in the healing process. They tell me it will lift a weight off my shoulders. They tell me it's the right thing to do. 

Just because you’re with someone who treats you well doesn’t mean you’re with the right person. Just because nothing is technically wrong doesn’t mean everything is going well.

Your forever person shouldn't hide you away inside their apartment. They shouldn't restrict date nights to watching Netflix and grabbing fast food to eat back at their place.

You don't want to grow to think of a toxic relationship as a normal relationship.

Being afraid of making a commitment to your person has nothing to do with your feelings for them -- but some people can't understand that.