Therapy Session 3

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"Tell me about high school. Was it good for you? Bad?"

I loved high school...I miss it so much sometimes

I never wanted to graduate...I could have stayed forever

"Why didn't you want to leave?"

I felt wanted, happy, safe, appreciate, noticed, and useful....

Now I'm a loser going nowhere with a dead end life

Living off others and not even being able to repay them....

I knew I would be like this....I knew I needed more time

I had a lot happen after high school that messed my future up

I can't keep blaming myself for it all...

"What happened?"

I was dating a guy I'd like for a long time named Allen

For two years, four months, and five days

He was my first love, my everything

He turned into a bad guy toward the end though

I knew it was going bad but I stayed....I'm loyal to a fault

He hurt me a lot and I let him....he left me

I found out he was gay and I was the last to know

We talked that night and I had to sit there

Convincing him into leaving me

Like I was some kind of messed up sales person....

Selling him on the idea of being with someone else

It literally broke me in pieces and I had to pretend I was fine

"Why is that?"

I had to break up with my first love and best friend

Just because I knew it was coming didn't make it hurt less

I wanted to be in his life and support him still

So I had to pretend it didn't hurt to breathe

Or live....

I let him treat me horribly and date my gay friends in front of me

My other friends got mad and made a big deal out of it

They didn't understand that he had treated me that way

That I had been abused by him for a long time before that

Mostly emotionally and mentally

"Why did you let him abuse you?"

I was so use to it because of my mom

She abused me horribly as a kid

I didn't know how to be treated right

That's why I liked reading and escaping

I wanted him to be my prince charming

He ended up being just as bad as my mom....

We broke up a month before college started

No one cared enough to realize I was broken

I fell in love with a guy named Luke that I met online

At first he was perfect

But....he became the worst monster I ever knew....

"How?"

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