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You can never truly love until you have experienced loss.

How can you truly love when you have not experienced the pain of loss?

How can you appreciate another’s love when you have not experienced their absence and the dark hole left behind?

How can you appreciate love when you have not experienced loneliness—the cold absence of them not by your side, the ache for someone’s touch, the emptiness of having nothing and no one?

You can only truly appreciate love once you have experienced loss: the abandonment from your loved one, the constant sadness of being alone, the neglect of intimacy, the darkest crevices of self-loathing, the drowning weight of not wanting to resurface.

Then you know how much love is worth.