“It wasn’t really love that we felt for each other, even though we tried. I stayed with her because I made a promise that I wanted to make my family proud for keeping, and she stayed with me because she thought it was a way out of her father’s control. But it destroyed us. I’m not saying that’s any excuse for what I did, how I acted, but it’s my truth. We were stuck in a relationship that neither of us wanted to try taming or breaking apart because of our own reasons. I shouldn’t have gone after you until I was ready to accept the consequences of dissolving my promise to her, but the thought
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