On friday night, I met up with my boyfriend. We went out for dinner and had a couple of drinks. For the first time ever in our two years of dating, he actually told me that I was beautiful. "Will you take me to Holloween Horror nights?" I asked him.
"no,"he said."I don't like those kind of places."
The same answer as anywhere else I'd like to go. Dissapointed, I rolled over and went to sleep.
The next day, saturday, we were at gators eating lunch when he mentioned that his father had called the night before while were eating dinner. "I just told him that i was out with some friends," He said. At first, I just laughed, but then it struck me. He'd lied to his dad about being with me.Why?
There is that moment of truth in every relationship where you realize that all the time you've spent someone was worth it. Other times, there's that moment where you realize that the past two years have been nothing but a waste of time. "You told him you were out with friends?" I felt my eyes well up eith tears. I almost cried into my martini.
"You don't understand how my father is," he said, which made no sense to me; a grown man should atand up for himself and who he loves no matter who is an asshole about it. He should'nt hide his girlfriend of the past two years from his entire family.And what did that mean anyway? I didn't understand.
The rest of the meal went by slowly. I made up for my hurt feelings with a drink. I tried my best to not show too much that I was mad, but it was all could do. Usually we spend saturdays together, but I went home instead."I just want to be by myself," I said. I went inside and spent the rest of the day crying.
Later on, I became bored and took myself out for a drink. I ended up at hip hop night(and I hate hip hop) and the bar was crowded and I was alone and it was awaful, I suddenly just wanted to be alone, away from all these stupid happy people and creepy men and boyfriend who was ashamed to be with me.
I can't believe that my own boyfriend is ashamed of me. The fact that he won't take me anywhere, the not telling his family about our relationship, the not wanting to meet mine. He's embarrassed of me. Why? Im attractive, people ususally like me, I'm smart, and I have all of my teeth. Wgat is it? Is it becasue I'm black? Why date interatially if you can't handle it? Why be in a relationship that you are ashamed of? I just feel like shit. Never in my life have i ever felt as I do right now. To know that the man that you've spent the past two years with is utterly shamed of being with you is a terrible feeling. When was he intending to tell them? Ever? If you love and care about somebody, you want everyone to know and you don't care what they think. The fact that he is that embarrassed and secretive of me just shows that this relationship will never go anywaher, will never be what I want it to be.
I want to get married one day. I want a guy who loves me unconditionally, forever and ever, not matter who or what. I want a guy who's not embarrassed to show me to his family or meet mine. I want a guy who'll take me places that I want to go to, even if he doesn't like them personally. Isn't that what a relationship is about? Give and take? Because there are two people in this relationship, not just him. And I just realized that in the end, he doesn't love me and never will.
I know this relationship needs to end. He's a different person to me now. Everything I hoped and beleived about our relationship was wrong. My feelings and needs don't matter, who I am doesn't matter. I'm just here becasue it's convenient for him. He is the most selfish person I have ever dated. I deserve so much better. I deserve a guy who'll give me flowers sometimes, who'll tell me I look beautiful sometimes and will show me off to the world. And I just can't believe that it after this long, this is where I end up.
I don't even wnat to talk to him but he needs to know how I feel. Something has changed. It's me.