K Barker’s Reviews > The Night We Met > Status Update

“It felt weird to move on, to work in a place my mom would never know about. To have a relationship and falling-out I’d never get to tell her. It was like I’d shed a skin and I was a different person, and she’s never get to see the me of now, and I grieved that too. But that’s life when you go through a different door than the one you know. You end up somewhere new.”

You can’t love someone more than they love themself

“How did I end up here? I swore I would never be this woman. I should have been better at recognizing the signs by now, but I wasn’t and that was the hardest reality of it all — that I couldn’t even trust my own judgment, that my instincts were this broken despite all my experiences with men just like this one. Men who were drowning and refused to kick.”