Se ele fosse a pessoa certa, teria ficado

For as long as you can remember, you’ve been someone who believed in love. You’ve been a girl who was looking for real romance and a happy ending in all of your relationships.

Nunca te interessaste por algo temporário e nunca procuraste um homem só para te divertires.

Os casos sem sentido e os namoros casuais não eram a sua praia.

Em vez disso, tudo o que sempre quiseste foi encontrar o homem certo for you, your soulmate and the man you’d grow old with.

No, you weren’t too picky and you didn’t want a Mr. Perfect—you just wanted simple things—someone to get you, someone to try around you and someone to love you back.

This is exactly what you hoped to get from your ex-boyfriend—love, compassion and understanding. You wanted him to be your safe harbor and your haven after a long day.

E, se pensarmos bem, este tipo era mesmo tudo isto.

He indeed had everything you looked for in a man—at least in the beginning.

No entanto, passado algum tempo, as coisas mudaram e ele revelou-se um homem diferente do que pensava.

Não tem a certeza se ele está agora a mostrar as suas verdadeiras cores ou se simplesmente se cansou de si, mas a verdade é que, de repente, não havia sinal do homem por quem se apaixonou.

Depois de muitas discussões e ainda mais tempo perdido, ele deixou-a.

Sem mais nem menos, ele foi-se embora da sua vida como se vocês os dois nunca tivessem tido importância e como se nunca se importasse consigo.

Deixou-te sozinha, a tentar lutar contra a tua tristeza e a tentar perceber quando e porquê as coisas correram mal.

Nevertheless, that is not the worst part. You know that eventually, you’ll stop missing him and get used to his absence.

You know that you’ll learn to live without him even if you never stop loving him.

Mas e se ele fosse a pessoa certa para si? E se ele fosse a tua alma gémea?

What if you never grow to love someone the way you still love him? What if you’ll spend the rest of your life searching for him in all the other men you encounter? What if this man who got away remains stuck in one part of your brain forever?

Well, let me promise you one thing—none of this will happen. And you know why?

Porque if he was the one, he wouldn’t have gotten away. If he was meant to be yours forever, you would have never lost him.

You know, when love is real, it doesn’t have an expiration date. It doesn’t fade away the moment things get rough and it never ends.

When love is real, it lasts a lifetime, through good and bad days, through thick and thin. None of life’s obstacles or time can do it any harm because it is omnipotent and everlasting.

I know you are still convinced that this man was the one for you but he clearly wasn’t.

Ele tinha um objetivo na sua vida, estava lá para dar-vos uma lição and to make you understand some things but he obviously wasn’t right for you.

Porque se fosse, nada neste mundo o poderia ter afastado de ti.

Se assim fosse, continuaria ao teu lado, a segurar-te a mão ao longo da vida e nunca teria sequer pensado em abandonar-te.

Se ele fosse a pessoa certa, vocês teriam tido o vosso final feliz.

I know all of this is difficult to believe in now but you’ll see that it is the only truth once this true love we are talking about comes into your life.

When that happens, you’ll realize all the ways in which all of your past relationships were wrong and you’ll finally understand why none of them worked out.

Most importantly, you’ll see that there is momento perfeito for everything and especially for love. You’ll see that sometimes there is a difference between the love you think you want and the one you really need—the difference between temporary and everlasting love.