"Talk with yourself, baby. Ask yourself what you want. Don't tell yourself what he needs or what's best for him. He's responsible for those, not you. In a relationship, it's true that in a lot of ways you put them first, but your own happiness, your own self-worth, they should never be put in front of that."

Her words stayed with me longer than she did. A lot longer. They haunted me as I lay there staring up at the ceiling and they stayed with me as I showered and dressed.

They had me pulling out my phone and even checking that stupid fucking app that had caused so much...