WHEN THE GAP BECOMES TOO VAST

We do things for the people we love and we do find pleasure doing things for them… but sometimes no matter what we do, it is never enough for them. It is as though they don't understand our love and our dedication to them, but instead, try to find faults in everything we do. They never appreciate our efforts... never reciprocate our feelings. It is as if they think they have a right to us and hence continues to demand without even realizing that love needs to be reciprocated - because if love is not requited, the feelings die and what remains is just a formality. With time, even that formality ends when it becomes more pain than pleasure. Eventually, we stop doing things for them and start thinking about our own happiness which we kept putting aside while trying to make them happy. And by the time they realize their mistakes... the gap between you has widened so much that it becomes difficult to recover from it.