Rising from Wreckage

I did it to myself....

I have always been the side piece.
Not always the other woman in some torrid soap opera sense, but almost always the one who existed off to the side of whatever life a man already had going. A distraction. An escape hatch. The fun one.

There have been a few more “serious” things in my life, but they never lasted long enough to matter in the way I wanted t…