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

and telling myself the distance I felt was just a phase.

“You invited me there,” I said. “Why?”

That finally made him look at me. “I thought it would make things easier. A clean break.”

A clean break. By humiliating me in front of his friends so I’d be too ashamed to fight for anything. So I’d slink away quietly and he could tell everyone I left on my continue reading …