breakups
When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
Open Letter to the Man Who Left. Top Story - December 2017.
Looking back on it now, I realize you weren't worth it. I have seen scarier monsters, braved worse storms, I have even dragged my legs through bloodier thorns. Nothing compared to the hurt I felt when you told me what you did. How does somebody cheat on someone they claim to love? How does somebody deny and ignore and shut out someone fighting for them tooth and nail? I'm anxious to know, is it because you were hurting too?
By Sarah Holdsworth8 years ago in Humans
Abuse Is Not Love
Getting my first boyfriend at age 22 wasn’t exactly how I wanted my love life to start. Guys weren’t really into me in high school or college. I was always a “great friend.” Hearing that made me feel pretty pathetic. All I wanted was to have a guy in my life that loved me for me: not my looks, what my job was, where I lived... blah, blah, blah.
By Jenna Goldberg8 years ago in Humans
The Girl from the Past
A girl I used to know walks up the platform and sits on the bench where I'm sitting. I know her right away. She's the one from my past. I saw her, years ago now. She just disappeared into the background, and became a memory. I pause for a moment, and note how this seemed to happen with so many people that I've once associated with.
By Holly Bushnell8 years ago in Humans
54 Thoughts That Cross a Woman's Mind When She Is Cheated On
Thoughts That Go Through Your Head When You Get Cheated On When we are cheated on, we are completely overcome by a million different emotions. That’s honestly the hardest part of being cheated on; the way our mind processes it. Of course it’s hard to come to the realization that someone you love has betrayed you in such a drastic way. But what’s worse is the images our minds create and the whiplash of feelings we have to feel. Which explains why it’s common for people to go get completely hammered when their heart gets broken. We just want to shut our minds the fuck up for a few minutes.
By Jessica Rowe8 years ago in Humans
An Open Letter to My Ex
Oh, the things I want to say, the anger, the questions, the answers I need, the why’s, the what if’s & the dreams that never came true. I know full well I’ll never get any of these & if you ever read this, I hope that maybe you can call some time? Have some peace from the past? As much crap that happened between us, you’re the only one I want to forgive, the only person I’d ever sit down with & just lay it all out on the table. If you read this, say Hi some time?
By Emma Pilgrim8 years ago in Humans
Agony
Every night she tried to sleep, woken after a mere few minutes by nightmares, nightmares of burning and pain. She would lay there, eyes wide staring into the bleak blackness of the night, her mind racing and absent simultaneously. How she yearned for it to stop, to feel some pleasure in life, some burning fire that did not scar her heart but instead enraptured it in a flaming hug of passion and love.
By Nikki WildFire8 years ago in Humans
It Will Get Better
I’m sure you’ve read plenty of stories about how a breakup is not the end of the world and many people have told you, “It’ll get better and you’ll move on.” And that all seems pretty irrelevant when you’re crying into your pillow late at night missing him. But I’m here to tell you that it does get better, but it’s going to get worse before it does.
By Josey Brown8 years ago in Humans
Is It True Love or Comfort and Familiarity?
For the past four years I had convinced myself that the man I was dating was “the one” and that my love for him was boundless and true. Meeting when I was merely 19 and being my first real relationship, he was all I had known progressing into young-adulthood. But four years into our story, when he dumped me and moved away, I was sure my life was over and I would never feel anything again... I was extremely wrong, and it didn’t take me long to figure it out.
By Scarlett White8 years ago in Humans
