"Love After the Wreckage" After the heartache you caused me, I still chose to love you. I held on—through the silence, through the shattered trust, through the nights I cried myself to sleep wondering if I wasn’t enough. I believed you when you whispered, "I love you too," even after the affair. I believed you when you said you could change. And somehow, I still believe you. Eight years have...

We first met in middle school, we dated for a year then broke up when she went to high school, I was going into the 8th grade. While we weren't together, we were dating separate people, but we stayed friends and would always be on facetime. Eventually we got back together, we were together for a while but called it quits over silly things. But while we weren't together, we couldn’t stay out of ...

A long distance relationship, which I thought was made to last a lifetime, ended in torrents of abusive texts after I broke things off. Three days of heinous sentiments ensued before I finally worked up the resolve to stop entertaining it entirely.