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

formed slowly, then all at once.

$36,842.

That was how much I’d spent supporting Derek in the last year alone. Not four years. One year. The year he was seeing Tessa. The year he was pulling away. The year he was laughing about me at brunches and calling me boring and telling his friends he’d upgraded—while I was still underwriting the life he performed continue reading …