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"I wasn't heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things."

"I have been reeling because I failed. Because I picked the wrong guy for me... Because the truth is that at the age of thirty-five, I have yet to love someone enough to sacrifice for them. I've yet to open my heart enough to let someone in that much."

I sit down on the couch, fiddling with my hands as I think. Now that he says it, I realize what has made me so sad these past few weeks, what has plagued me and made me feel so terrible about myself.
It isn't rejection.
And it isn't heartbreak.
It is defeat.

Why, until this moment, did I not realize that the issue is my own confidence? That the root of most of my problems is that I need to be secure enough in who I am to tell anyone who doesn't like it to go fuck themselves? Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?