Their Loss

never has complete denial torn a person up so much inside (while doing its best to plaster the charade of a smile across a face) as when someone agrees with a friend, a family member, a coworker, or just some random stranger who might have the compassion to listen to the self-pity drivel of the “just dumped,” that it was “their loss” (meaning the “dumper”)--- though all the intentions may have been the best & though all the love in the world might be there to provide a net for when the “dumpee’ hurls themselves off the side of a very tall building, does it comfort them at all to wield such statements so freely?