Before time began, before there was anything, there was love. It is not just coincidence we fall in love and come across those ones we cherish; it was bound before we’d even been created. There is somebody for everybody; everybody in this world has a one and only someone, for those unlucky people there is more than just one for them. They are not lucky because they have more than one love; they are unlucky because it means they somehow lost their true love. The love I’m talking about is not your everyday family/friend love; it is a love so pure and so beautiful that nothing can break it, not even death. This love is called an eternal bond.

An eternal bond does not have to be between two humans, it can be between any two life forms, two humans, two animals, or an animal and a human. Eternal bonds were formed before the dawning of time and are still being formed to this very day. When an eternal bond is formed, it is the strongest of strong. When you find that one that you are eternally bound to, it is like you found heaven on earth, but then as you spend your life with them, you realize there is no such thing as heaven on earth, as you are in permanent heaven.
The beings lonely hearts are lonely no more, for they have found the only one that can fulfill their dreams and make their wishes come true.

An eternal bond is so strong because the two lives become one. Their hearts combine, their souls join, and they are eternally bound. Nothing can break this bond, nothing in the world. Not even death can break it, no matter how apart they are they are always together in their hearts, for they each are and have half of each others heart.

If one is torn from their only one, even though still bound to them, they are broken into pieces. They are caused such torment and such pain that it is hard for them to go on without the other. This can not be caused by ‘divorce’ or mere separation, for the love in an eternal bond is to strong to ever be separated without something intervening. This intervention is the ever awaiting death. Can you imagine living without half your body, without half of you? No it is impossible to imagine until you experience it, but it is like living without air, you are slowly but surely suffocating without the only one who can save you.

The pain:

I once had an eternal bond, with my best friend, the love of my life, her name was Cosette, and she was a German shepherd. She was no animal, she was an angel, the most beautiful dog you could ever imagine, dark, dark brown eyes, and a face that would make you gasp in disbelief. She was stunning, amazing.
I never possibly thought I could ever love something so very much, but from the first time I saw her I felt it inside me, something strong and passionate waking up inside me, making me smile from inside out, and letting light beam from within me. She laid her head and her paws down on my knee for the car ride home, and there in the back seat of a ford falcon, an eternal bond was released from inside us, and we were closer than anyone could ever be. She grew more beautiful each day, she helped me through some very hard times, and she gave me the best moments of my life. Everybody that saw us together said they had never seen a stronger bond between an animal and a human. Cosette was completely my other half, I relied on her so much, and she was my everything. But even though we were as close as could be, I did not feel her in danger. I didn’t even know she’d got out the gate. And so on the day of my nanna’s funeral, the one I was eternally bound to was hit by a car. I could not feel it; I didn’t even know she was dying. But then when my brother told me, I felt whatever had woken up inside me, was dying. I was losing the only one I had ever and will ever truly love. I broke in half that day, and nobody can sew me back together, for the one I love lies beyond my reach. We are eternally bound it is true, but until the day we are rejoined, I shall be living a half life. A life without my sweet darling true love there beside me. She was an amazing animal, she truly was. I have a man, its true, but he does not fill that space, I am still as empty as I was the day she died. I am so very afraid of what will happen if there is no such thing as heaven or the rainbow bridge, I deeply hope there is, I need there to be, for I cannot survive without my only true love.

Cosette [Diamond Lil] was born on the 2nd of August 2001 and died on the 23rd of June 2003, she was two years old.