Sometimes, the apology never comes.
The explanation never arrives.
The goodbye is silence.
And the closure you keep waiting for — it doesn’t show up the way you imagined.
But here’s what no one tells you: you don’t need closure to move on. You don’t need every question answered, every wound justified, every ending neatly packaged with clarity and reason. Sometimes the only closure you get… is choosing to close the chapter yourself.
We grow up believing that healing requires a full-circle moment — that someone needs to come back, acknowledge the pain they caused, give us the “why” we never received. But in reality, waiting for that moment can keep us stuck. Stuck in stories we didn’t write, stuck in emotions we no longer want to carry.
True healing often begins the day you stop chasing closure and start reclaiming your peace. Not because you’ve forgotten what happened, but because you’ve accepted that the past cannot be rewritten. You begin to understand that closure isn’t something someone else gives you — it’s something you create when you choose to stop reopening wounds that only you can see.
You’ll know you’re healing when you no longer need to make them the villain in your story just to feel okay. You’ll know you’ve grown when you stop needing the conversation that never happened. You’ll feel lighter when you stop trying to make sense of things that were never meant to be understood — only released.
So if you’re still waiting for closure, here’s your permission to stop. Let silence be your final answer. Let the absence be all the proof you need. You don’t need to understand everything to be free. Sometimes, peace is just the decision to stop explaining yourself to people who were never meant to stay.
You don’t need closure.
You just need courage — the courage to walk away, without looking back, and trust that healing will meet you on the road ahead. 
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