Free Yourself: End Relationships That Hold You Back

It wasn’t easy, but I did it — you can, too.

Diana Leotta
4 min readJul 22, 2024
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash

Breaking up is hard to do.

If you love and respect yourself, you must take action. Do not indulge in guilt — when the time has come — do it.

My dear friend is unhappy in her marriage.

I believe it’s time for me to end a friendship that has fizzled out.

Ending a relationship is painful, even when it’s right. Right, perhaps, for at least one of us.

Friendship

My friend Dan and I met at a personal development seminar several years ago.

Self-development and our life goals were the basis for our friendship in the early years. Later, I welcomed Dan into my creative life by inviting him to museums, galleries, various art shows, and exhibits I attended.

Dan is a gay man, and always had entertaining stories to share about his relationships. We enjoyed “educating” one another, laughing our way through many afternoons and evenings.

Until We No Longer Did

I began to grow weary of picking up the tab. Dan was often out of work due to a myriad of absurd excuses.

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Diana Leotta

Retired from work, not from life. Musings on Life, Living and Learning. Always curious. Strong55plus@blogspot.com.