Loving someone else with everything your soul can give creates a blindspot within yourself. Parts of you slowly slip into the shadow, by the light of your love shining so fiercely for someone else.

And with every disagreement, every argument, every quiet frustration, that shadow stretches farther. Little things begin become larger things, and resentment settles in, heavy and uninvited and so the shadow grows.

Until one day the shadow rises high enough to eclipse the very light that created it. And when that happens, the parts of you that have lived too long in the dark begin to wither, and pieces of who you once were fade away, lost in the silence…