Literature
18 Love
"What would you do for love?" My mother asked me that, right after her fifth divorce.
I responded immediately, "anything."
"And that makes you desperate. There are millions of men, I don't have to stay with just one." I didn't want to be my mom. She was just in love with that first stage of a relationship, where everything is new and exciting, the proposals, the rings, the weddings and after a year or two of marriage and the sparkle on her diamond dimmed she'd file for divorce. So in my attempts not to be my mother, I became the woman who fell hopelessly and completely in love.
Which is what got me stuck in this awful mess to begin with