Tu sei il mio lieto fine

I’ve been going through years and years of my life, never knowing what true love was. I was searching for it in everything and everyone.

Somehow, I thought that love was supposed to be this great and secret craft that not everyone was allowed to master. Sounds weird, I know. But I was convinced that love wasn’t something that was going to be in my life.

Ne ho passate tante. Ero la ragazza abusati dai narcisisti, psicopatici emotivi e persino da me stesso. Forse ora vi chiederete: come ho potuto abusare di me stesso?

Well, it’s easy. I went all in thinking that I could change them and that with the right amount of effort they would love me as much as I loved them.

I would cry myself to sleep because I couldn’t believe that something so beautiful as love would hurt so much.

And then… there was you.

La prima volta che ti ho visto è stato il giorno in cui ho deciso di iniziare una nuova vita e di smettere di pensare se qualcuno mi avrebbe mai amato o meno.

In qualche modo, volevo amare me stessa più di chiunque altro. Ero seduto in un caffè e stavo scrivendo i miei pensieri, ed è stato proprio in quel momento che sei entrato nella mia vita.

Siete stati così dolci e gentili. Pensavo di aver dimenticato l'aspetto del volto di una persona gentile.

There was nothing I could’ve done to make you go away because you were determined to love me and make me love you. I did. I fell for you and the crazy thing about it is that you caught me.

You didn’t let me fall for you so I could keep on falling forever, but you caught me and went together with me into a whole new life.

You hadn’t had it easy either. You didn’t learn much about love from your fidanzata traditrice and that’s nothing you should be ashamed of. We’re learning together now.

From day one, the fire between us didn’t burn away; it kept on keeping us warm and protected.

Mi fai sentire protetto. Mi fai sentire sicuro. Mi fai sentire amato e apprezzato. Ma non c'è nulla per cui io sia grata quanto il fatto che tu mi faccia sentire abbastanza.

Io sono abbastanza. Per voi, per me stesso, per il mondo.

You showed me love. You showed me what love is and that it’s not hard, that it’s not suffering. Mi hai mostrato che l'amore incondizionato e genuino non ha mai uno sfondo tossico, ma piuttosto il bellissimo sentimento di appartenenza.

You showed me how to love myself the day I decided to fall in love with you. You told me that there is no one who can love me like I can love myself and you were right. But it’s nice to see that someone else has the courage to love me as well.

Thank you for everything you have done for me. For everything you are and everything you’ve taught me. Thank you for essere ciò che si è.

Now I have realized that endings don’t have to be sad, but they can be happy and beautiful, just because I am living my life with you and I want to spend it with you until the end of my days.

The end won’t be sad, because I know that I have will have spent my life in your hands and with my head leaned on your shoulder.

But let’s not talk about death. Let’s talk about every new morning that I spend kissing you and every evening that we spend loving each other even more than we did the night before.

It’s the most fulfilling feeling to know that out there is someone like you just waiting for every woman who has survived. It’s like knowing that everyone will have their own happy ending.

Un lieto fine che ci insegna che l'amore è reale e che l'amore aspetterà sempre chi è paziente.