Loving without expectation of return

[EvolvingPhoenix]

Perhaps your actual lesson is to love the self you see in the other enough to set boundaries and stop enabling them to mistreat themselves by mistreating you. That's how Agua frames my feiendship breakup as being the right call to make. Don't give them any more chances past a certain point. It may seem cold, and perhaps it is, but it may be what they truly need to grow. Just do it more lovingly than my friend did.