The hope, when a relationship ends, is that we’ve learned something from it, that we’ve become better for having experienced it. And sometimes more than that, we hope that it has prepared us for the next love, the great love. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves that what comes next, unknown as it is, will be better than what we are losing; sometimes it’s so hard to say goodbye to what we have that we have to imagine what we are going to have.

But always, when we encounter all the pitfalls, potholes, and gasping chasms on the road to love, we have to remind ourselves that we’re going the right way. On the road to love, there are no wrong turns.

One Day (Kat Parsons, Libbie Schrader)

One day my love will come
And I’ll be glad that you let me go
He’ll see the light in me
I’ll smile and he’ll just know

Watching the ho-ur glass each grain of sand
Falls like petals from a rose.
He’ll look at me and he’ll know.

One day my love will come
And I’ll be glad that you let me go
He’ll whisper in my ear
“It was always you, my dear”

I’m looking through pictures and reading old letters and wondering why you ran
Someday I’ll wake deep in pillows beside him
and then I’ll understand
All that I’ve been has led up to this man.

Ooh ooh ooh
He’ll whisper in my ear
“I finally found you, my dear”.

Every step forward in love brings me closer to him
Even if my heart breaks, no there are no mistakes…in love

Isn’t life funny how nothing makes sense till it does
Even if my heart breaks, no there are no mistakes…in love

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*oh, i get by with a little help from my friends: Thanks, as always, to Jodi Elliott for her writing and editing expertise.