One would think it would be easier to not get lost on a one-way street. Fewer options, fewer choices, fewer ways to get confused and not make it to your destination, right?
Ironically, no.
Not only have I managed to get lost on physical one-way streets . . . I find it much easier to get lost in one-way street relationships.
It always starts out well . . . or so I think at the moment. It always takes hindsight for me to see that the relationship, friendship or romantic, was never two-way. Was never healthy. And was, in fact, toxic.
I recently experienced this moment. Not with a romantic partner, but with someone I thought was a good friend.
He’d always been there for me when others were not. He was also the one who helped me during one of my hardest moments.
But after learning that he ...