a good friend of mine just broke up with his gf pretty recently. 

they were together for 6 years and counting, when one day he realised that she didn't love him anymore. he was still very much in love with her, but he sensed that it was slowly evolving into a one-way thing and she was just staying in the relationship cause it had become so much of a status quo that no one was willing to shake the boat. 

he was too much in love with her to put her through a relationship which she no longer had any passion for, so he made the really tough decision of ending the relationship. he lied to her that he no longer loved her anymore, and the 6-year-relationship just crumbled into nothingness, just like that. and now the girl is (apparently) attached to someone else, blissfully unaware of the heartache she had caused.

i felt compelled to tell his story because it made me stop and think, are the relationships we get in now going to last? and those so-called long-lasting relationships we see in some friends now, can they truly say they are as in love now as they used to? and if its diminishing, wouldn't it run out someday, when all of us are just holding onto the relationship merely for convenience's sake?

kinda sad, dun u think so? it took a lot of drinking sessions to get the guy restarted and going, and man i just feel overwhelmed everytime i think of the situation he had to go through. if i were in his shoes, would i selfishly hold on to the relationship, wishing that she would fall in love again someday, or would i just let go, and let her seek her true happiness? 

sometimes this sort of thing has to happen to someone close before you can truly understand the agony of this catch-22 dilemma.

cheer up, pal. don't give up the forest just because of one tree.