You choose to be an asshole, you choose to waste your hard-earned money and God-given organs in an alcoholic blur, you choose to compare your story to everyone else’s, burning the brightest fire for victimhood there is, you choose to dismiss anyone else’s experience.
I am your shoulder, your rock, here for you at the drop of a hat; but I will not burden you with my messiness, my feelings -- especially my pain. I am a codependent partner who bears the agony, the demons and the manipulation of my alcoholic boyfriend.
In finding your light, you’ve proven that stories like yours and ours, stories dripping with hopelessness, are actually tales of hope -- hope that things improve, hope that fractured love heals, hope that the blessings we beg for find us in the end.