Journal Theory

Getting cheated on and having my heart broken was one of the best things to ever happen to me. When I was just a few weeks shy of turning 25, I came home to find that my boyfriend of 3 years was no longer in love with me. He had cheated on me and was ending our relationship. We had been built a home together, with our 2 dogs, our car, and joint bank account. We were on the path to marriage… at least that’s what I thought. I look back now and see very clearly that we had been headed down two completely different paths, but at the time I was completely blindsided. I felt as if my whole world shifted its orbit… and it did. The thing is, I had wrapped up my entire identity and self-worth into this relationship. We lived together, we worked in the same industry just a block away from each other, we had the same friends, we did everything together. I no longer did the things that I used to do for me: write, draw, read, create. I say this not to point any fingers or place blame, but because I made the relationship m