relationships
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I wasn’t happy in that relationship, and the hardest part is that no one knew. Everyone jokes that I’m a terrible actor, but somehow I gave the performance of my life. I fooled everyone, my family, my closest friends, maybe even myself for a while. Behind closed doors, it was different. He was manipulative, selfish,…
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I’ve been trying to understand how someone can feel so much like me and so different from me at the same time. We’ve lived different lives and had different experiences that shaped the way we see the world. Our perspectives, ideas, interests, and opinions don’t always match. Sometimes your mind goes somewhere mine never would,…
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I’ve been thinking about what I would actually want if I ever chose to be in another relationship. Of course, there are the important things. I want honesty, maturity, communication, trust, and someone who shares my morals and values. I want to feel safe with someone. I want to know that when something is wrong,…
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I really thought it was you. I don’t know how else to explain it. Out of everyone I could have met in this life, I really believed you were the person I was supposed to find. You weren’t just someone I loved. You felt like my person, my other half, my best friend, my home.…
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Something I keep thinking about lately is how unfair it is that someone can come into your life, completely mess it up, and then just walk away. Someone can make choices that affect your entire life, leave you dealing with the consequences, and somehow there’s no bill waiting for them at the end of it.…
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I didn’t know I was being manipulated when I was with him. I knew I wasn’t happy and I knew our relationship was exhausting, but I honestly thought we just had a lot of problems that we needed to work through. There was always something going on between us. Some argument, some lie, some new…
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I contacted an old friend. Someone I hadn’t spoken to in many years, but never quite forgot. Sometimes he would appear in my head. I’d wonder how his life had been and if things could have been different between us if we’d met under different circumstances or made different decisions. He replied, and we eventually…
been hashed 