Pelear

I will never fight for another person again in my life.

I don't believe that fighting for someone is a way of showing them you love them. Fighting for someone means they aren't showing their love for you, because they are expecting you to chase after them in order to prove their feelings. There are a million other ways to show someone you love them. Fighting for them should never be one. The word "fight" should never used in correlation to "love".

It took me 11 wretched months of fighting for someone who wasn't worth fighting for to understand this. And I will never make that same mistake again.

This doesn't mean I'm not willing to put effort into a relationship. It means I will not put effort into a relationship when the other person expects me to while they put in none whatsoever. If there is a problem I will gladly spend all the time needed to work it out, I will make compromises for the person, and I will meet them half way--but I expect the same in return. When you fight for someone, you are expected to sacrifice, not compromise. You are expected to go all the way while the other person isn't reaching at all.

That's unrealistic, unfair, and unnecessary.

And selfish.

And I won't fall for it again.

-Beaskie