18 things we forget to thank our exes for

16. For teaching you something about love, even if it’s just “what it’s not.” Relationships are assignments. They are exercises in opening your heart and seeing with your soul and accepting someone as much as you do yourself. Learning what love isn’t is just as important as seeing what it is. By contrast, you understand. Your relationships are not categorized into what mattered because it lasted and what didn’t because it didn’t. It was all a piece of the story, a page of the book, a part of the path that you can’t rectify because you were never meant to. You can only accept it by knowing it was never meant to be more than it was..