Down she goes

He’s with someone new. I imagine he felt like this when he saw me with someone new back in 2016. The only difference is, he didn’t walk away. He made it his mission to get me back. To make me promises he knew he couldn’t keep, and make me choose. My stomach has turned inside out. My brain is on an endless loop. My integrity, however, unlike his was – says stay the *f away. And so I shall. In late spring, 2023, he sent me a text that included a screenshot he had with a friend – and in that screenshot were “recently used emojis”. Those emoji’s included hearts, kissy lips, kissy faces. I hadn’t seen those emoji’s since the fall of 2021 when we were still together. My heart sunk. I had told him, post break up, that if he ever decided to start dating, I wanted him…

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