Letting go does not mean: “I will never see you again” or that we stop to love and care for someone.
Although sometimes it does.
Letting go means: Let it be free to evolve. Or it means to accept that the relationship transforms into another state or form that is much better.

Let go has to do with death and rebirth. It is really hard to let go, for all of us. Often we think that it is completely impossible, scared of the “unknown after”.
So we resist, refuse to accept, hold on. But it is the resisting that is painful and the fear of letting go, not the letting go it self. It is not painful after, when new possibilities begins to flower.

When I as a youngster had to leave home for education, my mother said: “You have no idea how hard it is for a mother to let go of a baby, to send you out in world”!
But it did not mean that she would never see me again. After I left, it was much more exiting for her to follow how well I did on my own and she could be proud and happy for me. Also she got more time for her own creative activities, a great satisfaction for her.

We can hold on to an idea, a dream, a decision or expectation, because we are not able to see things differently.
We refuse to jump into the unknown, where it often turns out that living day by day into new ways of regarding things, it becomes much better for our wellbeing.
Letting go of false security in a limited life, we come to feel fully alive. We can only come to know this by just-give-it-a-try. Such idea, decision or a habit that is not useful anymore, can come to be a prison for our essence to unfold it self. When this is case, we can come to live in pain all the time. So we have to let go.

In a world changing with haste many people try to hold on even stronger to an old world that will never come back. Time does not go backwards.
Let go means let life evolve and follow along.

When someone we love dearly dies, it is painful to accept the fact that they will not be here physically anymore. It hurts almost unbearably, as separations and divorces do. To move on we must surrender to grief.
Through time the lost ones come to live inside us in a new form. They become precious memories or someone, we can still talk to, even though we continue a new physical life without them.
The lived love remains in our hearts enriching the new life we live, when we have accepted and let life by itself show the path.
Let go, let life live, love it.

When we have hard time resisting to let go, we should look into what is behind it, often it is fear:

I am scared that I will be lonely
I am scared that I will not be able to manage
I am scared to take responsibility
I am scared to lose control
I am scared it will hurt even more
I am scared of any change whatsoever
I am scared that I will never meet another love again
I am scared of the unknown and to let my self flow and fly with life
I am scared that my dreams don’t come true
I don´t know what I scared of, it´s just a thought