He Said Someone Like Him Would Never Date Me — So I Made Sure He Never Would

was ending, I had the better place. We agreed to split everything evenly. At first, we did. Then there were temporary gaps. A slow month at his job. A delay in a payment. A promise. “I’ll get you back next month,” he’d say, kissing my forehead like it was nothing. And I believed him.

I covered rent once, then twice. Then it became unspoken. When his continue reading …