Five of Swords, Romantic Tarot

What dream are we close to giving up on 'due to experience' - though our soul tells a different story?

This fellow resemble someone I know.

I read,
"The soul cries: it was humiliated, but does not want to admit it."

A persistent feeling of humiliation can have us give up on love, or on relationships at least.
Make us want to 'feed the flower bouquet to the swans' rather than risk the negative consequences of giving it to someone.
Because the relationship negatives are all he can remember and feel in his body now, and they tell him 'it is not worth it'. 
There's still a longing though. And the dream of 'another way'. 
He is drawn to the swans, and their natural lifelong loyalty.
Has he experienced the opposite too many times or for too long that he will give up on the dream?

Has he taken his experiences to heart and converted them to facts and truths?
Cemented the conclusion and belief that 'a partner relationship is (apparently) not for him'?
Apparently, as 'he can't make them work'.

Maybe or probably he has forgiven 'the others', big hearted as he is - but the million dollar question: has he forgiven himself?

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Are we open for life reevaluation?!
To 'keep the dream alive' and instead look closely at how and where we may have run over ourselves in our pursuit of the same dream (up until now that is :)), hence created 'fertile soil for failure and misery'?
Open our hearts and forgive ourselves for all the times we've neglected our own feelings and inner knowing, and diminished our own needs - and instead focused on others' needs, emotions, wellbeing and general 'peace'? 

Are we open to contemplate the possibility that we've attracted individuals into our life that 'don't see or value us' to mirror how little we truly see and value ourselves? (Because if we did, it just wouldn't bother us, and/or we would move on to something more 'mutual')
Contemplate how (taught/inherited/experienced) self-neglect may have created a thirst for appreciation and attention, causing us to 'settle for crumbs' or 'take what we can get'? 
Once we see it and "admit it", we can change it :)
#awareness

And the path to the dream is open!

Deck: #RomanticTarot