Damaged Goods (p.2) - How to deal with bitterness

This is a follow-up blog post to one I had written last week.

My particular story might not resonate with you. But if you’ve lived longer than 20 minutes on this earth, chances are that someone, somewhere has offended you and given you cause to be bitter.

Bitterness is an ugly animal that will eventually destroy everything in your life. I think of it as a dark ink spot on a pure white dress. It may only start as a small inconspicuous spot but as long as the source of the ink continues to run, the spot will become bigger and bigger until the whole dress is ruined. I decided a while back that I would not allow bitterness to discolor my attitude and outlook on men or on life in general.  Here’s why I decided NOT to remain bitter.

Damaged Goods

I was 22 and my heart was broken. My beau at the time had just broken up with me and I was devastated. He was the first guy I had dated and one I had had a crush on since I was 15 years old. I could not sleep for days. I started taking sleeping pills to fall asleep. I had lost (what I thought at the time) the love of my life and I was totally broken. He later told me that he had stopped loving me a long time ago and that he had only kept up the front for over a year because he did not want to hurt me. Ouch. Talk about rubbing salt in a fresh wound.