Status Updates From A Very Nice Girl

“It was like he didn’t believe I could navigate the world, and the less he believed it, the more difficult I found it to do”

“But then he’d come back, and I was animated by his eyes. I blossomed and was real, and what I did mattered. If he liked something about me, then I liked it too.”

“I don’t make any demands on him, emotional or otherwise. I was casual, noncommittal, the sort of girl he wanted me to be. But not really-no-not really. Inside, I was trying to attach myself onto him with enough hooks, like a burr, so he couldn’t just pick me off”