Teach Me How to Love You
I wrote that I wished there were a place where the good-hearted ones only ever met their own kind, and the liars and manipulators got funneled off to meet theirs.
I ended it with a plea. If someone loves you, be careful how you handle their heart. Some people recover from the damage. Some never do. For some, it bends the entire course of their life.
And some go on to hurt the next person, because hurt people hurt people, and round and round it goes.
When the last of it was out of me, I closed the laptop, lay back down, and slept better than I had in a long time.
I woke up the next morning, showered, and decided to start looking for something. A job, anything to keep my hands busy until I fig