The 3 Biggest Heartbreaks You’ll Experience In Your Lifetime

Just like every love is different, so is every heartbreak. As such, here are the three biggest heartbreaks you’ll experience in your lifetime.

1. Your what-if person

Your what-if person is the chance you never got the chance to take. Maybe the timing was never quite right. Maybe they weren’t “ready” or maybe it was you who was unwilling to take the leap.

Whatever the reason may be, you were left with a cliffhanger, a chorus of maybes, and the hope that you two could become love one day. You could have sworn you saw “To be continued…” written in the stars the last time you saw their face. And so you cling to this ellipsis of a person like a promise. Your what-if person is one of the hardest loves to let go of, which is why they will be one of your biggest heartbreaks.

2. The situationship

The situationship will break your heart because of the lost potential. The false hope. The utter lack of certainty. And the worst part is you will feel like you won’t be able to tell anyone else about the pain. Because you were never official, so you feel like your hurt is invalid and that what you felt couldn’t possibly be real either. But you will be forced to reckon with the fallout one day. Heartbreak can’t be pushed down forever, no matter how much you claim it doesn’t exist.

3. The Big Love that wasn’t built to last

And finally, there is the Big Love that wasn’t meant to be forever, even though you could have sworn they were The One. This is the person you fell for, and fell for hard. The relationship was tumultuous and tender, beautiful but ballistic. Your chemistry was undeniable. They brought out the best and worst parts of you. They challenged you. Most importantly, they taught you how to love. They showed you what love isn’t. And they may have made you fall to pieces but they gave you the gift of rebuilding. They gave you the gift of another chance with someone who was meant to last. You just have to find the courage to heal first.