The Shift
“He had a demon in him,” she stated matter-of-factly, pausing to look down at her cards, “and…it did not like you.” She then cut her sharp blue eyes up at me; they were lined with thick dark makeup that made […]
Category: DUMBestic Violence
Amoral Support: Trump Won, You Lost. Period.
Did you vote for Trump? Me neither. What about Hilary? Me neither. In the words of Talib Kweli, I believe in “more accountability for politicians before we shoutin’ let’s vote!” Do you believe Black Lives Matter? Did you stand with […]
The Dangers of Children
I was on and off birth control almost as frequently as we were on and off with our relationship. In May, immediately before taking that foolish leap into marriage, I had had an ectopic pregnancy and needed to be hospitalized. […]
Red Flag Up! Pt. 2
Let it Go #Frozen When someone doesn’t want you intimately, you gotta just let them go. The inability to let go leads to controlling, stalking, and abusive behavior, which were all things my ex did to me. Someone […]
Red Flag Up!
They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. It took about two months from when we first met for me to solidify a first impression of my ex, and he was never able to come […]
Damn it Feels Good to Tell this Story
I was going to kill him; he was going to die, and there was absolutely no doubt about it. No way he was going to get away with what he had done or what he was doing. Waking my daughter […]
Queen of Hearts: The Roscoe’s Rumor
Let’s put it out there. He strangled me, and it wasn’t his first time. Though he would tell the story and omit this information or try to replace it with snippets of other information, that’s exactly what happened. On the […]
Should’ve Stuck with the “No”
From the beginning he pressed. That was a red flag in a way. There is a difference between being persistent and just plain pushy. Later I would see he was never persistent in anything meaningful or inspirational, never persistent in […]