"Maturity is not becoming someone who no longer wants relational repair, honesty, accountability, or tenderness. Maturity is recognizing that sometimes other people cannot provide those things, and finding a way to remain connected to reality anyway. Closure is not the disappearance of longing. It is the ability to stop organizing your life around the hope that someone else will finally relieve you of it. You can still wish they had done better. You can still wish they had acknowledged what happened. You can still feel angry, sad, disappointed, hurt, or unresolved. And you can still move forward." https://open.substack.com/pub/toddbaratz/p/closure-is-a-scam-but-so-is-pretending?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=58brv7 #mentalhealth #relational #repair #closure #relationships #article #substack