Mike
I am a Heartless Bitch because I am who I am even when it does not fit into what is expected or demanded of me.
I left a profitable career path in the media to follow my heart and work as a religious professional in a faith that does not always make sense to the people in my life but speaks to me on a primal level (Unitarian Universalist).
I helped nurse an ex-lover back from the brink of dying from AIDS (which he contracted before we met) despite some people's opinions at the time that I should leave him for someone healthy.
I later found the strength to leave that ex-lover when he got trapped in a dangerous cycle of drug addiction (he was clean and sober until his HIV diagnosis). I tried to be there for him and help him work towards sobriety, but recognized that I could not make him sane and had to take care of myself instead of letting myself remain in his eddy of self-abuse.
I moved to a new city with my partner in the past year so we can take care of his ailing father...yet still hold on to my biological and chosen family members wherever they and I may be.
I recently joined a rugby team despite having never played a contact sport in my life...and in playing this sport have learned that there is more than one meaning for the saying "No pain, no gain."
I make no apologies for enjoying the people, places, and things I enjoy.
I have survived the death of my father, an American coming out experience, the usual high school drama, and two diagnosed bouts with depression...and still am here with hope and self-confidence.
Country: United States
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