I shake my head. “It’s not your fault. I had this vision of us being together forever, and I wanted it so bad. I was so caught up in this safe zone where I wouldn’t have to experience life that I was willing to do anything to stay. That’s on me, not you. You never asked me to do that. And I don’t think it was possible for you to respect me when I didn’t respect myself. When I accepted any way you treated me. Instead of expecting you to expand your world to include me, I shrunk myself to fit into yours. And I can’t fit back into that space. I won’t again.”
