You Don't Need Closure.

You Need to Stop Hoping for a Softer Ending.

"You don't need closure. You need to stop hoping for a softer ending."

That person is not coming back more healed. They're not going to say the words right this time. They're not going to feel what you needed them to feel when they hurt you. And even if they do— …it won't undo the version of you that shattered waiting for it.

Closure is often just your grief bargaining for a better story. You want the ending to match the love you gave. You want the rupture to feel fair. But life doesn't always write justice into the script.

Sometimes the apology never comes. Sometimes they never understand. Sometimes it ends in silence. Sometimes it ends in a version of them you never imagined they'd become.

That's not closure. That's collapse. And if you wait for closure, what you're really doing is stalling your healing until the story flatters your effort.

But healing isn't vanity. It's not poetic. It doesn't always come with punctuation marks or full-circle moments.

You don't need closure. You need to accept that the ending hurt because it was real. And your life is still allowed to continue, even without a final scene that makes sense.

You don't heal when they come back. You heal when you stop auditioning for your own worth.

Sometimes closure is just choosing to live forward without needing the ending to justify the depth of your love. Sometimes.