There was a version of you who believed love had to be earned.
Who bent and shrank, softened your edges, swallowed truths – just to be chosen.
There was a version of you who mistook longing for love, who stayed too long in places that only ever gave you half-formed promises and empty hands.
She thoughts almost was better than nothing. She thought waiting made her worthy. And then there was the version of you who left.
The one who finally saw herself through her own eyes instead of his. The one who realised that love shouldn’t feel like chasing, like convincing, like slowly disappearing. She didn’t leave because she stopped loving him – she left because she started loving herself more.
That old version of you? Who held onto almosts and maybes, mistaking inconsistency for passion. She reread old messages like they were scripture, searching for hidden meaning in words that were never enough.
She learned to live on breadcrumbs, convincing herself they were a feast. And when it ended—when he left, or you finally walked away—she mourned not just him, but the girl who believed she had to be less to be loved more.
Then there was the version of you who rebuilt. Who sat in the quiet, sifting through the wreckage. She pieced herself back together, not into who she used to be, but into someone softer, wiser, stronger. She stopped mistaking longing for connection, stopped calling uncertainty excitement, stopped romanticizing love that made her question her own worth.
Venus retrograde isn’t here to drag you back into the past—it’s here to show you how far you’ve come.
To remind you of every version of yourself that loved, lost, and learned. It’s not just about old lovers knocking on doors better left closed; it’s about facing the echoes of the woman you once were and deciding, with every fiber of your being, that you will never abandon yourself again. This is a return—not to them, but to you ❤️🔥
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