from 2015. Vulnerability seeks a companion, and confidence can often appear in solitude. Maybe that’s why people tend to keep their distance from things that require more than the usual attention. If I had to choose, right now I’d choose to be alone. I am comfortable with silence, and the fact that my bed sheets […]
from 2015. I can’t pinpoint where I fell in love with him. Maybe it was in that parking lot when it was raining. Maybe it was in places I was too preoccupied to notice. But I lost him in pieces, everywhere. I lost him between the distance that one summer, I lost him on the […]
from 2015. Being left is picturing your entire world in a different frame of mind. It’s clock handles slowing and sleep getting shorter. It’s looking at your friends and seeing someone different. It’s jealousy that you never thought you’d have – that you never wanted to have. Of them, of him – of people who […]
from 2014. I am the hint of purple on your neck & the bruises on my own knees I am the crack in your bed frame & I’m trying not to be a mistake. You were half smoked cigarettes I was gasoline on a fire You said you liked when it rained I didn’t want […]
My ex’s brother tried to give me relationship advice at a party about a year ago. He said, to expect 40% but always give 60%. It was one of the key’s to a relationship – always giving more than you are expecting in return. And if both partners are consistently operating around these percentages, there […]
Love, Ashley. 