I should be happy. I should feel good about what I found the nerve to do. I finally revealed my true feelings to him tonight. I love him so much, I will always love him…but I just need space. I need a break. It’s confusing to me as well, which made it even harder to explain to him. The past 3-4 years I was almost obsessed with him. I would do anything he asked. I sacrificed a lot of myself for him. I put his feelings as a number one priority, and mine came last. They came last to him too. He claimed to have loved me, but his love hurt me. It hurt me many times over and over again. There were good times, mostly in the very beginning when the “love-bombing” happened. He was perfect. It felt like God finally revealed “the one” he had planned for me. I thought, finally I can be happy. Finally, a man who gets me…wants me…and actually loves me. It felt like he knew me inside and out. He accepted me, even my dark past. We shared similar scars from life. He was checking all the boxes. Bu...
I can feel it—there’s a brighter, happier life out there just waiting for me, beckoning me to leave this one behind. But the unknown is terrifying, and so I stay stuck, clinging to what’s familiar even though it’s slowly drowning me. It’s like this new life has been waving its arms frantically, trying to get my attention. It’s begging me to let go of certain people who are dragging me down, to kick those bad habits to the curb, to take bigger, bolder steps, and to make choices that actually serve me. I know the direction I should be heading, but instead, I’m either gazing wistfully at the past or taking hesitant steps down the wrong path. I’m standing here at this fork in the road, my feet buried in the mud of my old life. And even though there are hands reaching out to help me, I ignore them, choosing the torment I know over the possibility of something better. Why do I do this to myself? How have I become so comfortable in the pain and stillness of this old life? Help me, God! I’m si...