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Because I love ME


"Because I love you, I'm trying to protect you. But using me for sex, fighting with me, and leaving wasn't love. Throwing me around the bedroom like a ragdoll during sex, was NOT love "I'm over here working my ass off, because I love you" But getting another girl pregnant while you're "busy at work" wasn't love "You can't be pregnant, I pulled out" Even though you asked me to start a family with you, wasn't love. Calling me a druggie when I asked you why you cheated, wasn't love. Abandoning me when I was pregnant, was not love. You didn't love me for a second, and you sure as hell didn't love the life you put inside me... the life that died, inside me. But I loved you from beginning to end, and some days I still do. I loved that life, that little girl that died inside me. And, I am learning to love myself a little more every day. I am going to love myself first. That, IS love
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