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I knew I was naïve and chum in the water, but I knew that, and that was an advantage over those who lied to themselves.
100% - self-awareness is one of the best skills to have.
I hated how boys were always little boys, but men were high school and above. Yet females were girls until like thirty.
Ugh… hope this doesn’t get annoyingly feminist. Because this is just dumb - and not even really true.
I thought I was attractive and felt no shame in my body.
Umm… if you have a nice figure, why would you?
However, in our sexist world and without connections, that left her without much of a chance to get far.
🙄🙄
In other words, I’d been completely, totally, and utterly played, and I was too fucking stupid to have seen it. He wasn’t my hero, but the devil dressed up as one who slid in at the opportune time to “rescue” me and get everything instead.
Oh for fucks sake. You were not played. YOU used him. Sure he was game, but you initiated AND pushed. You are making up stories in your head. The fear based fiction in your head is NOT truth.
“Yeah, but a good burger is messy and that’s not ladylike. And you can’t tell me a lot of guys wouldn’t totally judge that on a first date.”
wtf…. Where is this shit coming from. wHAt guys is she talking point. How would she know given her limited experience with guys: And even if that was true… wouldn’t you rather find that kind of stupidity out on the first date?
had
Umm… then maybe don’t take such big risks.
No, it wasn’t, and I wasn’t trying to be passive-aggressive or do any stereotypical female thing I just… My emotions were all over the place, and realizing we’d done all of that and he hadn’t even kissed me yet spun me out and made me feel cheap. We kissed faster when I’d been
Ughh… so annoying.
“So you were just fucking with me?” Oh shit, this was backfiring. I stared up into his eyes and worried my lower lip.
What the fuck did she think she was doing? It was backfiring? What was her actual intention?
