Brace

transitive and intransitive verb prepare for something bad: to prepare for something difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant that is about to happen
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I just felt the need to explain why I had braces because nobody understood why. It’s my metaphor for the break-up. And eating is moving on. It is hard to eat when you have braces and so you end up giving up solid foods and consuming only soups and soft foods. But man can’t live on soup alone. Therefore, he needs to eat no matter how hard it is, how painful each bite and swallow is. And so is moving on, it’s a hard and painful process.

I don’t really want to have braces; but my teeth needed it. It has to be corrected so that things go just the way it has to and to avoid bigger problems in the future. In the same way, I don’t want this break-up; but we both need it. It has to happen, so that things fall in the right place, and to avoid further breakdown in the future.

The moment my braces are to be removed, my teeth will be better. It might take time but it’s certain that it will be corrected and be just the way teeth has to be – clean, strong and in the right place. Then I can eat anything I want without undergoing that painful process of biting and swallowing.