“When we physically separate from someone we’ve been involved with, that doesn’t mean the relationship is over. Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any that would have been learned had the couple stayed together. At the so-called end of
relationships, I have sometimes felt that I was falling in love with the person more deeply than I had been before. What I’ve discovered for myself is that the Holy Spirit sometimes pulls out all the stops at that moment, simply because it takes all the love we’re capable of to let a person go. ‘I love you so much that I can release you to be where you need to be, to go where you need to go.’ This moment in a relationship is not about an ending. It’s about the ultimate fulfillment of the purpose in any relationship: that we find the meaning of pure love.”
“A Return to Love” – Marianne Williamson, p. 165-166.
