Sometimes you have to keep a safe and healthy distance from people you love to protect your mental health. Love is so complex and complicated and many things can be true and conflicting at once. Sometimes keeping a distance is the healthiest option. I’m not saying this option is easy though. It’s difficult and sometimes it sucks. Sometimes there will be moments of weakness where you want to entertain old patterns of behavior, just remember that didn’t serve you then— and it won’t serve you now.