So what..

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
-K. Gibran-

What if you love somebody..and let them go, but both parties were too proud , or scared, to return to each other?
Isn't that akin to lost love... that it is present, but never came back to the same meeting point.

Would it be true love if it only applies to one?
And then, they say,
True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another.

When should you open up and give yourself that chance?...especially when you've been hurt, ever so badly?