At the time, I thought I was different.
I thought my situation was different.
I thought our love was different.
I thought maybe they were projecting their pain onto something that didn’t apply to me.
Truthfully, I felt like I was living a double life and just hiding this part of me that only the people who I used with knew existed. I felt like professionally and academically I was a fake. I know most of us that recover in silence often feel this way.
