I remembered laying against your soft naked breast. We cuddled at the Deadly Muppets theme camp for what must have been 6 hours. I didn’t realize how fast the time flew by. The sun rose and I had to leave you. I didn’t even know your name. We just lay against one another for so long. That whole weekend I spent falling in and out of love. It couldn’t have been the drugs or alcohol, but my desperation to find someone to fill that dreaded empty feeling digging deeper and deeper inside of me. I’m so confused. I think I’m gay. I only have these feelings when I’m with other women. I’m not comfortable around men. For the past four years I’ve been madly in love with Shelby(Not her real name). I’m not sure if we ever were together or she was just messing with my head. Shelby liked to torment me with mind games. She knew I was so weak. She was a tortured soul herself. She was always angry about something. Her output was me. I let her scream at me and manipulate me as long as I could make her happy. It made me so happy she she depended on me. I was a very secluded and antisocial girl when I met her. She introduced me to the world of drugs and boys. But I always just wanted her. I did whatever I could to please her. I don’t know how she saw me. I want to say she didn’t love me. But she did, in her own very fucked up little way, she loved me. She teased me all the time, I didn’t think she saw me the way I saw her. She sabotaged my valentines date last year by bursting out with chocolates and a bouquet. Then went with us to the movies which she insisted on paying for. It was strange. She was a strange girl. She was dating this boy simultaneously who abused her and eventually she got pregnant with his child. I took her to the abortion clinic. She was too far along they said. We went home and I didn’t see or hear from her for over a week. I freaked out. I called her and messaged her non-stop. I was so worried. But this was another mind game of hers. She tortured me emotionally. Where am I even going with this story? There’s so much to it. Eventually though, I told Shelby she was my poison; I blocked her on all devices of communication and haven’t spoken to her. I didn’t even wish her happy birthday. Memories of her are so painful. I said such painful things to her many months ago, yet I still can’t get over her. Why? She only causes me pain and suffering. I can’t do this. Nobody takes me seriously. Everybody is so happy and supposedly got their shit together on them damn dating sites. I’m a manically depressed sociopathic asshole who nobody ever takes seriously. Hah, at least I’m honest. Nobody would put that on their page though. Emotional disturbances are like the little surprise gift that comes along in your cereal box that you weren’t expecting to roll into your cereal bowl. I hate the whole “life is great” mask people put on when they message you. Can we just talk about pour problems and be each others therapists? That would be greaaat.
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Yeah, that’s the first thing I think of every time this friend of mine I talk to sometimes says that I should try online dating – who is going to read a profile about me and get more than a couple sentences in before clicking “next”. A relationship, romantic or platonic, needs to be built on honesty. If you can’t respect someone enough to be truthful with them, anything you build on that won’t be very strong. I mean, my anxiety, my depression, etc is going to be evident right away. Trying to hide that is just setting oneself up for failure (of course I’m a consistent failure anyway so yeah…).
If you are gay, there is nothing wrong with that. People love whom they love. If you are more comfortable with women, then that’s fine, but whoever you are comfortable around, you shouldn’t let them use you or treat you poorly. Women can treat you poorly just as easy as men can, and you shouldn’t accept being treated like that no matter how much you love a person because if they truly love you, they wouldn’t do that to you.
You seem to understand that enough to have walked away from it, but you also seem to have left a part of you still there with her. I’m not sure why though. Maybe you just wished she would have loved you too, that she could have seen how much you cared for her and reciprocated. I’m sorry she couldn’t see that, but hopefully you will find someone who does treat you well and won’t treat you like that. I hope when you do, that you are able to move on because I’ve met so many who don’t seem to and pine for that person that they’ve become fixated on, ignoring the person they are now with. It’s sad. it’s important to remember the past, to let it help shape your present, and future. It’s important to remember the good as well as the bad, but it’s equally important to remind yourself why the bad (and even the good) in the past is no longer part of your present so that you might find better things in the future.
Take care.