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B. Love
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May 1 - May 2, 2023
Years of seeking his mother’s love, validation, nurturing, and affection as a child had turned into easily and quickly attaching himself to any woman he desired. Whether she was good or bad for him, if she gave him any of those things, Hassan would be all in.
Tricking niggas came easy, but love? That shit was hard.
“What did your mama teach you to get from men?” “Dick and dollars,”
“How you cut me off before I made this pussy mine?” he asked, voice husky. “You know that’s the only way you were able to leave me, right?”
I don’t have to have you, but I’d be sick if I ever lost you.”
I believe in you enough for the both of us until you do.”
This was why she didn’t express her feelings. The first person meant to validate them, her own mother, was the first one to make her believe they didn’t matter.
“I’ll take these teeth out and turn your young ass out. You better gone now.”
he always told the truth because lies were too hard to keep up with.
But he didn’t in the end.
“You gon’ off him in front of the kids?” Rakim asked calmly. “Fuck them kids.”
Hassan always allowed himself to feel what he felt, even if it was bad.
We shouldn’t be anxious over things we fear, especially when we have no proof they are actually going to happen.
No, I can’t promise you that I’ll be the perfect man or the perfect father, but I can promise you that I’ma give both my all. Please tell me that will be enough.”
If you cheated on me, I wouldn’t get mad; I would get even. And trust me, you do not want to see me scorned.”
“Nah, there’s always something. Even if it means getting up an hour earlier, staying up an hour later, or rescheduling a few things to take that time. But taking that time…” He paused as his head tilted. “That’s the difference between losing yourself in your personal life and keeping the flame lit with your partner.”
You told me to wear this!” “I was just playing with your dingy ass.
“You hurt me, and you don’t get to take away the time I need to heal just because you don’t want to lose me.”
