Last year I broke up with someone I cared for deeply. For myriad reasons, mainly distance, it was agreed we had to let each other go. It was a bittersweet parting as the connection, trust and respect we had built for each other over our two years of on-and-off dating was still there. And it was beautiful, even if impossible. His parting words at the time were, “what a tragedy to be throwing such good love away”.

It seems relationships have become too easily disposable, discarded at the first whiff of spoil.Credit: ISTOCK

That statement almost winded me, as what he said was profoundly true. Today, I am discovering good love is hard to find and, sadly, often hard to keep. It seems relationships have become too easily disposable, discarded at the first whiff of spoil. Tolerance........

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