I don't know how to tell her.
How are you expected to tell anyone?

"This isn't doing it anymore;
your affections aren't suitable for me.
I would rather have *** with
other people than you."

There's nothing wrong with her.
She treats me well,
and I spend more time with her than most.
But she isn't her. You know? Her.

"It's not that I don't like you.
It's just that most people
make me incredibly lonely.
And you're simply one of them.
No hard feelings, right?"

There's just no pretty way to say it.

My friend tells me of this girl who he felt connected with him more
than anyone else.
How she breaks the mold of everyday life when he's with her.
I told him there's a girl like that in my life.

My friend says that if he was with a different girl,
it would feel like settling for less.
I told him I agreed with that.

He looked real serious.
He said,
"Do you ever wonder? If that girl,
the one who breaks the mold,
if she would just be settling for you?"

I had never thought of that before.