Couldn't Do It Without You Novels & Stories

she kept repeating. “I cannot do this without you,” I said, pulling back and taking her face in my hands. “Do you understand? I will die without you,” I reiterated, hoping to make an impact on her. I wanted her to know how much she meant to me. How much I had already relied on her just to breathe.

I couldn’t finish the sentence, not when just the thought would kill me. He looked away again, like he’d just stepped into the ring for another round. “But I can live without children.” I could live without a reality that I’d never had. Live without something that hadn’t come true. Because my love for Bastien and my life with him had completed me since the moment we’d met. “But I can’t live without you.”

Lucy: Survived the week? Amelia smiled. Amelia: Barely. Lucy: Pub? Amelia: Already here. A reply arrived almost instantly. Lucy: Without me? Rude. Amelia: You cancelled on me three times this month. Lucy: Details. Amelia: I'm having one drink then going home. Lucy: That sentence has become your entire personality. Amelia laughed quietly. The waitress returned with her cocktail then. "Enjoy." "Thank you."

“Thank you, you know. I never could’ve done any of this without you.” Lauren shook her head. “I don’t think I believe that.”

"Besides, I've never tried and failed completely, so that's something." The smallest, most fragile breath of real hope flowed through my chest. I held it gently, not wanting to squeeze it too hard. "Mira," I said quietly. "I don't know what I would do without you. I genuinely don't. If you weren't here—" "You don't have to, please." She cut me off gently. "Don't go down that “thank you” road right now. Save your energy for more useful things." She said jokingly. "But I mean it," I pressed. "I came here with nothing. I had no one. And you have been of so much help to me. Thank you."

“And here I was thinking you wouldn’t be able to survive without me. I was even considering canceling my trip for you.” “Please don’t,” I said dryly. “Your presence is very much needed there.”

Luther said. I lean into his hand and smile. “ Thank you Luther. I don’t think I could do any of this without you by my side.” I told him. I don't know how I would handle all of this if he wasn’t here with me.” Lucky for both of us that is where I will always be. Now come on. Let’s go meet everyone before my mom busts out the door and steals you from me.” he said. I laugh and take his hand.

“I’m sorry, I know we’ve talked about this, but I just can’t wrap my head around you being able to live your day-to-day life without… without me. Because I wasn’t able to do the same.” “That wasn’t living, Meadow,” I said, feeling my throat tighten. “Going to and from the office every day, sometimes making sure to submerge myself in work so I wouldn’t think about you too much—only to end up thinking about you.” I brushed a teardrop from her cheek. “Missing you, loving you, wanting you… longing for you. That wasn’t living. And I don’t ever want to go through that again, because it is fucking torture. A life without you will be a miserable one for me. I can’t do it.”

she made sense of my world because she is my world. People say something like this a lot, ‘I am nothing without you,’ then turn around and do something else. Some might even say I was exactly the same for what I did to my wife. But what no one understood was the fact that I got to do all that because I had a rock by myside.

“Strength isn’t about never feeling fear or doubt. It’s about pushing through those moments, even when it feels impossible.” I close my eyes, leaning back against his chest. His words settle over me like a balm, soothing the raw edges of my soul. “I’m not sure what I’d do without you,” I whisper. “You’ll never have to find out,” he replies, his arms tightening around me.