“It’s these moments in which I’m profoundly grateful for the array of experiences I have allowed myself to have. I’ve loved and lost and left and longed for. I recognize the resentment I held against the Boy for the commitment I made which meant I never explored something that probably would’ve been nothing, but yet it changed everything. It’s made me extremely wary of monogamous relationships, of long-distance ones (ironic given my current involvement in one spanning 300 miles), and of setting expectations high or loving what someone can be, rather than what they are.”
Read more at Taste it Twice.
AVENS OBRIEN 
Beautifully written. Bravely written. Compelling and insightful accounts like this should be published to a wider audience.