I hold on to the positive memories from past relationships and leave go of the dark memories with love.

The sorting is never as clean as it sounds.

There is a photograph from a good afternoon, and the argument happened four hours after it was taken. Both are true of the same day and the same person, and no filing system separates them properly.

What can be done is a change of emphasis rather than a deletion. You get to decide which of the two you tell people about, and which one you go looking for at two in the morning.

Letting them go with love is the demanding half — meaning without first needing them to have been a villain. Some people are simply badly matched to you and were doing their best inside it.