How do you let the past go?

When the person you've spent so much time with, lived beside for so long, doesn't change and grow in the same way you do, it tears holes in the fabric of your self.

Am I so different from others that every time I get involved with someone that after the passage of time I feel held back by them. I try to learn new things, take lessons from what happens to me. To grow and evolve as a person.

When she speaks to me I wince. It's the same thing over and over again. Is it so wrong to expect the one you're supposed to love to walk along side you, following a similar path?
I don't think we ever were on the same path. I was just so lonely for so long that I was willing to overlook all the negative things that encompassed her life in order that I not be alone anymore.

How to not be 'The Bad Guy'? I don't know. I've had to do it before. When in the past the same thing happened I ended up having to break it off.

They think, for some reason, I'm so great.

I'm not.

I'm just me.