After You Hurt Me

…sadly, there are consequences.

Photo by Zohre Nemati on Unsplash

I don’t know why, but it always happens this way.

I fall in love with a man. I make some kind of commitment to him. And he hurts me. For some of them, it took a few days. For some, it took a year.

But they don’t just hurt my feelings. I’m an adult. I’m not a fucking fainting daisy. They let me down in big ways-shaming, blaming…