Learning To Be Alone After a Relationship

For the longest time I was content. That is the only way I can describe what I was experiencing. My relationship, my feelings, my experiences, I was happy with them, I felt satisfied. The confusing part is that it happened so fast. There was a comfort level between us that was almost unimagineable, as if we had known each other for years. At 5 months into our relationship I felt the same sense of safety as I did at 2.5 years. In the beginning it felt strange and unwelcome, kind of like a "is this it?" moment. But I quickly learnt to recontextualise how I was feeling into a future commitment thing. I realised for myself that this could possibly be the person I spend the rest of my life with. You'd think that being in my early twenties would have made me have doubts, or desire new experiences, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Of course there are things that could have been a bit better, but generally speaking if that is what my life would have looked like, I would have lived…