There is nothing louder than the silence between two people who loved each other deeply but they had to walk away. Not because the love was not real, not because it stopped, but because one of them did not have the capacity to choose the other; and love without that intentional choice isn’t truly love.
So the other person had to choose themselves, even when they did not want to leave, even when it broke them. Because sometimes choosing yourself is the only love left to give.