You can't fully let go. You'd rather redefine the thing than release it entirely.
You propose the friendship. Every time. Because ending it completely feels like erasing what it was — the memories, the inside jokes, the specific way they knew you. Sometimes it works. You have exes who are genuinely among your closest people now. But sometimes 'let's stay friends' is how you keep a door open you're not ready to close. Or keep them close enough that neither of you fully moves on. The Eye sees the love in this impulse and the complication running underneath it. You don't end relationships — you evolve them, whether or not they're ready to be evolved.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou propose the friendship because letting go completely feels like saying it meant nothing — and you are not willing to say that.