Where was i?? We had a really good relationship for a while... don't really remember much though, nothing spectacular happened. Then when I was a senior in high school, he had already graduated he began to get really jealous, or maybe that's when I noticed it, who knows? I sat at a table in the cafeteria with all guys, to this day he still doesn't know that. I'm too afraid to tell him, afraid he'll be mad or hurt. I care about him, and it really hurts me to see him upset. For a while there I just didn't tell him things that I knew would upsset him, like if i hugged a friend (that was a guy) Not that I had all that many, but still. He never wanted to do anything with me and for a while I didn't care I just wanted to spend as much time with him as possible he was working all kinds of crazy shifts at work, sometimes i didn't see him all day. (he was living with me at my parents, again) Then I got tired of being home all the time and never getting to hang out with my friends because he didn't like them. So I finally got fed up and said, "If you don't want to go out with me, than I'm going with out you!" and I did. Half the time I didn't tell him the truth about where I was going because I knew he wouldn't like it, but I went anyway. We fought soo much, about stupid things, I don't even remember anymore. Somewhere along the line I just got tired of fighting, tired of being upset and I just gave in. I never went out, stopped talking to all my friends (although he wasn't the only reason I didn't talk to them anymore.) I went to work, school and home. I just fell into a routine, something I don't think I ever had, for a long time I liked it. I didn't have to worry about much. Sure I was bored out of my mind, so I just buried myself in school and work, and anything else (that I could do at home) I just got so used to it, maybe i even told myself that i liked it. The more you tell yourself that something is true, the more you believe it, right? I spent most of my relationship defending it, to myself included, maybe i started to believe the lies i had been telling everyone else. I do love him, even if it wasn't right away or as i have said before 'learned'. I wanted so much to be happy with, him I believed that I was. I didn't know any different, all I had to compare it to is what I saw in other people's relationships, and mine seemed alot better. Although i wasn't comparing it to any normal functioning relationships. People always ask me, "Don't you wanna know what it's like to be with someone else? Don't you think you're missing out on alot?" My response, "I know that there is a lot out there that I have missed out on, but finding out isn't worth the risk of losing what I have." I made myself believe I had the perfect relationship, sure it has faults, but whose doesn't. Then I got the same feeling all the sudden that I was stuck, I needed to get out, not away from him, needed to do something else besides work and school all the time. We never went out because it's too expensive (which is a whole other topic by itself) So i started going out again, with people from work it was the only people I talked to besides my boyfriend. Went to a bar (made the bf REAL mad) but I didn't care I just wanted to have fun. After hanging out with the same people a few times my circle got smaller and smaller again, until i found my self talking to the same person all the time. I found myself lying to myself again, (i'm getting really good at it) that we were just friends. People told me that he liked me, but i didn't believe it, i tried to pretend that i didn't like him, how could I 'like' someone I had a boyfriend? So I told myself it was just a little crush, it would pass. Of course it didn't, kinda hard when you see them everyday. I'd catch myself looking for him, and being excited to see him. Still I told myself we can be just friends, all we'd done so far was go to lunch together, oh and I brought him home once cause his car was broken. Which is something else that surprises me, how eager i was to be the one to help him. Even right this second my heart is pounding just thinking about him. I don't know what it was but i found myself making up reasons to see him. Then when i couldn't find anymore reasons, I made them up and lied to my boyfriend about where i was. Then i made everything WAY more complicated because i kissed him. i made the first move. I don't even know why i did it, all i know is that i really wanted to. It's really weird i never wanted to kiss someone soooo bad. not even my bf. I'd never had 'that' feeling before. I'm not even sure what 'that' feeling is, i just know i like it... (by the way, heart still pounding) I'm not even sure it's real, it's like a dream or a fantasy or something. It doesn't seem real, and i'm scared that it isn't.