Chiara: Separating from my partner has taught me that it is going to be tough, but this will probably make us stronger and, as I would like to think, in peace with the choices everyone makes.
We have been knowing each other since school and we have spent half of our lives together, he was the one knowing the deeper me. It feels very strange to use the past tense, he still is the one person knowing every color shade of my soul, he still is my best friend, he has always been before even being together for years. Even if we barely see each other anymore, when we do I know he is my family and that it is never going to be different than that.
Separating from my partner feels like grief, but there is something intrinsically sweet in the sadness and the pain I know we both experience: we grew u
