Love is something that you can always add more…

When you are widow/er soner or latter your friends will start trying to find you a new love... Then you start to think, "but I still love my late partner, I will love them forever! Why my friends are so disrespectful towards my partner?! They used to be friends too!!!" I am sure they told that because they love and cares about you… They want you to be happy again. I am almost 5 years in, I still didn’t had anyone besides my James, but is just because I still didn’t found someone that could make me happy like he did, or maybe because I wasn’t/am ready yet… but I believe he would want me to be happy and find someone new to share my adventures and misadventures… Even if you find someone new that doesn’t mean you stopped loving your late partner.... your love for them never ends, it will be always there with you…. You just opened your heart to more love… When someone have kids, for example, they don't stop loving the first kid after having another, right? Love is something that you can always add more… loving someone doesn’t mean you cannot love again another person and that you have to stop loving the first person… Be gentle with yourself and your friend… Your friend just wants you to be happy! Also do not rush into something just because you feel pressure to… You will know when you are ready and when is the right person… But above all, love yourself first! Be inlove with you, accept the new you... don't get into something just because you don't know how to be alone with yourself... You need to be able to love yourself!

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