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Jenny Wen — An epilogue

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Last year, I ended a five-year relationship. It's an agonizing statement to write, let alone an experience to share, and so many of my emotions are still so raw. I could write a post about love: "What It's Like to Fall in Love", "The 15 Best Tidbits of Being in Love", "How to Be in Love With Your Best Friend", but I don't feel like popular culture underserves that area in any way. I'm still learning a lot so I'm wary of my own advice and probably have no authority in telling you what to do. So, here's what I've learned so far, and maybe the lessons will appeal to you anecdotally as opposed to being preached at you: Letting go is gradual. I'm learning to let go - not just of a person who was my best friend, but of the idea of him and what we had. We were together for long enough that when considering the notion of being together for the rest of our lives, I sometimes thought: maybe. I'm still letting go of my aspirations of us - aspirations of our futures entwined together - both for th

Jenny Wen — Notes January 11, 2015 An epilogue Last year, I ended a five-year relationship. It's an agonizing statement to write, let alone an experience to share, and so many of my emotions are still so raw. I could write a post about love: "What It's Like to Fall in Love", "The 15 Best Tidbits of Being in Love", "How to Be in Love With Your Best Friend", but I don't feel like popular culture underserves that area in any way. I'm still learning a lot so I'm wary of my own advice and probably have no authority in telling you what to do. So, here's what I've learned so far, and maybe the lesson

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