Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

Men are such babies. They’re too scared to actually break up with you, so they just get mean or fade away until you get mad and dump them.

An insult doesn’t have the intended impact when spelled incorrectly.

I guess it’s mostly women who do it. But sometimes you meet a girl who is just, like, your soulmate. Not in a romantic way, but in a friend way.

Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”

And people hate that quality in a young woman, don’t they? They don’t know what to do with a girl who isn’t looking for their approval. They feel like they have to bring her down a peg.

In the end, life is just sweatpants and children who resent you and all your choices. But no one wants to hear that.