well let me begin by saying the amount of energy I put into this sucker (I call him a sucker because he leeched onto me for over a year and sucked all the energy I had out of me) could have filled a stadium! I see now that I was his temporary crutch. I look at him now and he looks HAPPY. HAPPY! When the fuck was he happy with me? Wining and complaining is all I heard out of that mouth. I had to drown myself with his tears to keep him a float. Think of that Titanic scene when Jack is freezing to death and Rose is holding on with all her might knowing that he was going to die anyway saying, “I won’t let go Jack” and finally she has no choice but to let his sorry-ass go and save herself. That scene explains our relationship perfectly. The hell I went through, the amount of time I spent, the care I put into him all to get no sort of progress but rather witnessing him fall deeper and deeper into his own issues. It’s like trying to fix some used car you bought, seeing hope in it, seeing maybe that with some care, attention and time this car could be fixed and running one day! But really no matter how many times you tried fixing it something else would break in its place. It was frustrating after a while and humanly I gave up. I wasn’t going to waste my life trying to make a used car that was self-abusive into some working beauty. It was impossible, at least by me it seems. I hope he knows what he put me through, I really do. But if I got to know him at all through that year or so I know he didn’t. That undeveloped brain of his is too stubborn and immature to see the energy I put into him, the stepping stone I was for him. I can’t say towards the end I was the perfect girlfriend but I TRIED as hard as I could, giving him my full attention days even when I had art projects due the next day and not half way done. I listened to his rants and rarely did I have the chance to tell him my problems— going through freshman year of college, the transitioning and friend-making and new life-style couldn’t compare to his gluten intolerant problem or the fact that he didn’t want to get up to go to school every morning. A relationship is supposed to be equal! I felt like his filter he depended on and yet after he used me and abused my help he didn’t bother to clean me. Most of the time I felt like his fucking therapist! He had a therapist, why the fuck wasn’t she helping him with his shit! There’s only so much a senior in high school at the time, applying to colleges, scholarships, and getting her own shit together could do! I am surprised we lasted through all that. I put so many things on hold including family and friends and other opportunities to tend to his anxiety. I babied him and I hate myself for it. I would order his food, I would buy him gluten free treats and not once did I get a smile. I got nothing out of that relationship, if anything I lost energy and the enthusiasm to fall into another relationship as hard as I did into that one. I gave 110% and felt like I failed, imagine how that feels to an A student. I honestly don’t want to be with him again, that would be like WANTING to go to the dentist and get my wisdom teeth pulled out. I just wish he could see my side but that’ll never happen. So I’m stuck with this angst over him until someone else can top his. Ain’t that the sad truth.