This Is How You Will Teach Yourself To Love Yourself After Betrayal
Remember this about the ones who betrayed you. Their love was neither as honest nor as pure as the love you give to yourself. It’s the only love worth having.
Remember this about the ones who betrayed you. Their love was neither as honest nor as pure as the love you give to yourself. It’s the only love worth having.
You should date a person who is self aware and recognises their own flawed humanity.
But what do you do with this wild thing that doesn’t listen, that chooses romance when you laugh at the idea of what romance is.
There is witchcraft here, a kind of witchcraft every hunted woman practices when she finds love.
Everyone else treats the rotting things that are falling
from your lips like they are sugar spun soft as cotton candy,
because people don’t want to see something ugly
When it is more efficient and less painful to see
something pretty and acceptable inside their heads.
It was slow, this cancer that grew within our love. It took the pure thing we planted and rotted it from the very roots of what it was.
So let me love you, but let me love you right. Bring me your tired body. Bring me your soft heart. Bring me everything that makes your heart quiver and your mind tense. Let me kiss these broken shards of you and let them know that they are loved too.
Some loves were not planted in the right soil to grow.
Celebrate the little things. You’re the only one who gets to see them, so celebrate them.
This is the kind of hero you are: every time things have become so difficult you can barely breathe, you have…