When love feels bruising, it can be easy to want to just shut down and this can be good in the short term. Yet living with heartache can illuminate one’s life in many new ways. Strengths, goals, weaknesses and fears, both reasonable and unreasonable, are closer to the surface .
Opening one's heart even a little bit allows space for new, more positive people to come into your life. It can grant the humility to consider options that that you would not have seriously looked at in the past.
A bruised heart can respond more easily to spiritual experience, friendship, therapy and other forms of new learning It can allow you to connect with creativity and energy you may have not even realized were missing.
So when love feels bruising, be kind to yourself and try to stay open. In time, you will reap many gentle, healing rewards