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EmperorBonaparte  ·  4067 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you feel guity?

I've been feeling very guilty lately.

I moved in with my ex almost a year ago, and we got back together. We were both 18 and it was a great 6 months, but then she cheated on me. After a nasty breakup which ended with her somehow making me out to be the bad guy I fell into a deep depression.

Then I found out she was slandering me to our mutual friends. That was when I swore revenge.

After a month long campaign with my new allies at my back, I emerged as the clear victor. I finally made her cry a few days ago when I told her that her brother, whom she admires, knew she cheated and "Sometimes I wish you could have seen the look of disappointment on his face."

I feel like the fallout with her friends and family, the judgment, is warranted as a consequence of cheating, but I think I am still a bad person for leading the charge against her. Before all of this happened, before I swore revenge, I wondered if it would be worth it to get back at her. Only time can tell if it was worth it.





BlackBird  ·  4066 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's the beauty of time - it gives you hindsight, in which you always have 20/20 vision.

Identify the negatives, look at the positives, and above all derive the lessons learned to be utilised for future reference.