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The pain experienced during a breakup is as individual as the millions of people who go through it.  ~Tigress Luv

Sometimes the best memories are the ones you have to lose.

The funny thing about breakups is they point out what we didn't even know we had, but don't give us the option of going back into battle armed with that knowledge.

Why did you leave me? When did you leave me? Where was I when this happened?

He gave me nothing, and he took it with him when he left.

Do not take your ex boyfriend's bad opinion of you as the truth. Nothing he thinks or says about you is about you, but rather a reflection of his own reality.

Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he may be losing you; and apathy is the past tense of both.

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

I can embrace myself, hold my own hand, love me - but I can't gaze into my own eyes and feel my own soul lift me up.

Every happy woman has at least one ex boyfriend behind her.

The dark of night does not come after the golden glow of the day's sun but before it.

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No one is spared the pain of rejection, except the ignorant and the fool. Which my ex boyfriend just happens to be both of.

Why must a heart break? Why must a tear drop? ....and why did I forget where I was going with this quote?

His closing his eyes to me, opened my eyes to him.

Mars and Venus? Nope. The only problem between the genders is that we each have the others needs and wants backwards. Men want to be needed, and women need to be wanted. Not the other way around. It's that simple!

We enter relationships as a somebody and leave them as a nobody.

When I said I didn't want to see you anymore why did you choose that particular statement to be the only one you ever listened to?

This sucks! I can't think! I can't sleep! I can't eat! Is love supposed to hurt so?

I don't know how to not love you, I only know how to not let you go.

The greatest experience we can ever have is usually not a welcomed one at that time.

The saddest thing about breakups is that the children get dumped, too.

It amazes me so that we enter a relationship whole and leave it only a half.

I looked in the mirror this morning, but I only saw me without you.

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Of all the moments in my life, you were always there somewhere. Once as a wish. Once as a blessing. And now as the greatest loss I'll ever experience.

Yearn for where you want to go, not for where you have already been: Your future will be better, your days will be brighter, and your nights will be filled with the glorious heavens.

If I stop thinking of you, will you be gone to me forever?

You know what the duck said when their lover left them? "Quack!" I guess you can say that the duck quacked.

When we wear our heart on our sleeve, nobody notices our great butts!

If the government could tax broken hearts, there would be no deficit.

It took losing you to find me. It would have took finding me to keep me from losing you. Why is life so unfair?

Last night you came back to me and my world was right again. This morning I woke up against my wishes. Why must there be a dawn?

If breakups never existed the music industry would go bankrupt.

LOVE-ADDICTION: Trying to make someone love you even at the last moment of your life.

We enter love with our eyes closed and leave it with our eyes wide open.

Sad endings begin every new romance.

You closing your heart to me, opened my heart to you.

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss. At this rate I should be in a full state of bliss for the rest of my days.

How many tears must I shed to cleanse myself of you?

Do not pray for a path less difficult, but pray for a path more challenging. Only then will you not pray to find a partner to love you, but pray to find someone worthy of your love.

How can the world just keep on, when you are not in it anymore? Don't they know that this is the end?

If I were granted three wishes, they would be You, Me, Us.

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There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and a time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time is now.

I saw you the other day, but you didn't see me. I was the one hiding in the recesses of your mind.

In my last relationship I realized that my partner was self-centered, self-serving, arrogant, ignorant, unfaithful, hypercritical, abusive, an under-achiever, and an alcoholic. I was devastated when he broke up with me.

Yesterday? Yes. I was there just today. And I'll probably be there for all of my tomorrows, too.

Do not resent being brokenhearted. Many are denied the privilege.

You should be arrested for murder, because you took my life away from me.

Memories are what you have, when you've lost everything else. Dreams are what you have, when you forget the memories. And bliss is what you have when you give up both.

Reality is a state of illusion. Therefore, reality couldn't possibly exist. So why did I think you were for real?

Time must be healing my broken heart, as I now know this... Your opinions of me were wrong - I am not that bad. My opinions of you were wrong, too - you weren't all that great.

Never over-estimate pain. Whenever someone speaks to me of their pain, I want to say, "yeah, and so....?", but of course I don't. I mean, why take away their only joy?

If your phone doesn't ring, it's not me.

Just for this one night I will not think about you. I will have fun, and laugh again. And enjoy every minute. Tomorrow I will deal with the hangover.

It's not the days, the hours, the minutes, nor the seconds that count. It's man's actions and reactions to them that make or break his life's journey.

If I have to be 'perfect' to keep my man faithful, then I'd rather just let him go and live alone. Perfect is an impossible state.

Do not condemn a government that allowed one terrorist act to happen, but rather praise a government who has, on your behalf, kept secret to you the countless others that they have prevented.

A new chair may look better, but the old one has already been molded to fit your seat.

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We all shall pass through this life but only once. Let us enjoy today, as we shall not pass this way again.

If my life were like a giant sandbox, sure enough along would come a cat... Fortunately for me I happen to like cats.

A man who cannot see past an 'imperfect' body, also cannot see past a 'perfect' one.

A great man reigns over himself with kindness and humor, and therefore never feels the pain of rejection.

If God didn't want me to help others heal, then He sure wasted a lot of life's lessons on me!

When your ex boyfriend gave you his love you had it to keep. That which is given to you, cannot be taken away from you. The only thing taken away from you was the wish to have it given to you again.

Love grows where trust is laid, and love dies where trust is betrayed.

If we are but one, then to hold you accountable is to hold me accountable. To love you, is to love myself, To forgive you is to leave me without blame, also. Ah, the peace!

Most people are afraid that if they back off a little that the object of their affection will move on and eventually forget about them. But, ironically, the real reason is that they, themselves, are afraid that if they back off that THEY will forget about the object of their affection and move on, and this they don't want to do.

When I first met my partner, I rejoiced in him. What splendid, fascinating, and new things he brought to my stagnant life. For instance, he could talk for hours about space and music. And now, three-and-one-half years later I realize that he can talk for hours about space and music. Despite this, I still love him.

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God made our arms just long enough to embrace ourselves: go ahead, try it - nobody's watching.

Stop dancing with ghosts. Yesterday is dead: bury it and be done with it.

Negative feelings are nocturnal animals. They only dwell in the darkest of places.

God can't be everywhere, that's why He created friendship.

Let me live my life as I want, for at its end it is I who must die.

I used to treat those who did me wrong with disdain and unacceptance. I was afraid that if I were to treat them nicely it would mean that I was giving them the 'go-ahead', 'thumbs-up', to hurt me again. Little did I know that I was only reaffirming that their choice to hurt me to begin with was the right choice.

To err is human, to forgive is just like asking for it all over again!

"If we are but one, then to hold you accountable is to hold me accountable. To love you, is to love myself, To forgive you is to leave me without blame, also. Ah, the peace!"~Tigress Luv

"Most people are afraid that if they back off a little that the object of their affection will move on and eventually forget about them. But, ironically, the real reason is that they, themselves, are afraid that if they back off that THEY will forget about the object of their affection and move on, and this they don't want to do."~ Tigress Luv

"I woke up one morning and realized that I would never be President. That was when I lost my ability to dream."~Tigress Luv's ex-BIL, after recovering from deep depression

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QUOTES TAKEN FROM TIGRESS' BOOK 'DREAM CHASERS: FACING OUR ADDICTION TO THE COMMITMENTPHOBIC PERSON'

NOTE: 'CP" stands for a Commitment Phobe - a man who fears commitment (also known as a commitment phobia or commitmentphobic man)

"The hardest thing in the world to break free of is our connection to a commitmentphobic person, simply because they hook you with the 'maybe'." ~Tigress Luv

A relationship with a CP is like a drive on an endless highway, with the CP always behind the wheel. ~Tigress Luv

In our endeavor to be as important to the CP as he is to us, we become retentive, suffocating, controlling, cunning, and self-reproaching. When we need to conquer the 'phobia' this intensely, we usually end up creating more havoc and fear in the CP than the phobia, itself, did. We end up embarrassed, ashamed, and stripped of our dignity - and even less close to our goal than when we started. ~Tigress Luv~

We have the power and the capability to love and respect ourselves right this minute. We don't need to wait in a dead limbo until the CP overcomes his conflict and gives us this. ~Tigress Luv~

If you are with a CP the best thing you can do is let him go and move on with your life. I know that's not what you want to hear, but it is the truth. ~Tigress Luv

Trust that your life may be already predestined. Stop attempting to control fate and learn to appreciate, and relish in, the peace that comes with Letting Go and Letting Be. ~Tigress Luv~

Are you in love with the CP, or are you in love with the fantasy of the perfection you think you two could be 'if only'? ~Tigress Luv

Sometimes in our attempt to find happiness we love too much, falsely believing that only another can bring the sun up in our morning.

When we place this burden upon another we relinquish our rights to joy, we hand over our power to another, and we erroneously inflate their status in our minds. This is a false love. The object of our burden becomes our Higher Power, and we, in return, become their slave. ~Tigress Luv~

Being addicted to the CP, and his Phobia, we behave as though the love and attention of another is only valid if we have to use high-pressure methods to force it out of them. We forget that true love is given freely, and along with that, the desire to be by one's side forever.

Face it, true love moves mountains to be with you. If the CP really wanted you to be by his side forever, he would move his mountain, not hide behind it as if it were a pair of apron strings. ~Tigress Luv~

There seems to be an unspoken link between seemingly normal men and women becoming codependent non-lifers once they become involved with a commitmentphobic person. ~Tigress~

Sometimes our instincts 'steer' us wrong. Take for instance the instinct to slam on the brakes when driving on black ice. ~Tigress Luv~

When in a relationship with a CP it is so much easier to say that the 'phobia' was the problem, than to admit that it was our intense need to become their 'appendage' that was the real problem. The pain which was created in our hearts was placed there by us, not by them. ~Tigress Luv~

When we repeatedly and consistently give to another we must ask ourselves, are we trying to bribe them to love us? ~Tigress Luv~

Another's measure of us is not as important an account of who we are as our own measure of ourselves. When we feel hurt by another's misguided notion about us we must ask ourselves what rings true about their opinion of us that makes us feel so rejected? When we validate another's rejection, we, in essence, reject ourselves even more than they did. ~Tigress Luv~

When in recovery remember that it is not a popularity contest. Sometimes we must do things that confuses another, but always remember your recovery comes before that of all else. There will be time later after your recovery to make amends to those who you may have shunned along the way. ~Tigress Luv~

Sometimes the hardest thing in life to do is to just Let Go. We falsely believe that by Letting Go we are allowing things to get out of our control - hence, take over us and go against our wishes. However, only by our repeated and futile attempts to control things are we being truly unjust to ourselves. The hard truth is: things are going to be exactly as they are going to be... whether you attempt to control them or not.

Trust that whatever will be will be and feel the peace that comes with letting go and surrendering to that trust. ~Tigress Luv~

Don't bend yourself into a pretzel to try and fit what you perceive as the solution to their 'phobia'. Get your own life back! ~Tigress Luv

We have to realize that recovery is about us. It is us holding our own hand and leading our spirits through to a better, more peaceful approach to our own lives.

Recovery means to heal ourselves and to stop looking for others to save ... recovery means we stop seeking out those individuals (outside of ourselves) who might need our healing, and realize that we need our own love and our own healing touch much more than they. ~Tigress Luv~

The less we place another as our Higher Power, the more likely we are to attract a healthy partner and secure a fulfilling relationship based on love, respect, equality, and trust. ~Tigress Luv~

The only real love is that love which cannot be imagined. ~Tigress Luv~

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