“Hurt people, hurt people.”

I have no idea who the phrase came from, but when I zeroed in on why I was experiencing the pain I was feeling in that very moment just a short month ago, those were the words that brought an utter and complete strike of clarity. You see, I went into this affair with my eyes wide open, knowing full well that there would most likely never be any intention on his part of his marital status changing. Going into it, I THOUGHT I understood what this was and where this was going to go – absolutely nowhere. What I didn’t bargain for was experiencing the types of intense emotions within myself for him and for my own self that I didn’t even know were possible.

Every person that I was close to who knew what was going on, and even some I wasn’t so close…