Please don’t stay for these reasons

Please don’t stay because you think he will someday become the man you thought he was.

Please don’t stay because he is an honest man and respected by others.

Please don’t stay because you see the potential, the happiness, the connection, the real intimacy, the potential of a best friend.

Please don’t stay because he sometimes comes across as the kind of compassionate man you’ve fallen in love with.

Please don’t stay because he tells you that what he gives you is enough for any woman.

Please don’t stay because he puts the needs of others before his own.

Please don’t stay because you think the lies are only there to protect you.

Please don’t stay because you believe it.

Please don’t stay because he tells you he’s trying, even if you don’t see any difference in his behavior.

Please don’t stay just because he might come home happy, happy to see you, happy to see your children, happy to be alive.

Please don’t stay because you’ve been so long that you don’t know where to go.

Please don’t stay because you have kids, kids learn what they see.

Please don’t stay because you’re afraid of loneliness.

Please don’t stay because you see loyalty, if it’s not loyalty to you, there isn’t.

Please don’t stay because leaving means changing and change is scary.

Please don’t stay because you believe that if you fail you will never find love.

Please don’t stay because you’re afraid of what other people think.

Please don’t stay because you think you are not worthy of the little love he gives you or the love of someone else.

Please don’t stay because you think no one would want you, with your eccentricities, your fierce loyalty to your beliefs.

Please don’t stay because you never lived alone, because you never took care of a family without a back-up plan, because you never had a choice to live or to be.

Please don’t stay because you’re afraid of being alone, of dying alone, of betraying your wedding vows.

Please don’t stay because you need someone to complement you.