How I Ended Up Being Single For 10 Years

Or how an ordinary person ends up being on the fringes of society

Georgina Dorrington
Sep 1, 2018 · 10 min read
“woman leaning on her knees” by Zohre Nemati on Unsplash

10 years ago, I came out of an awful relationship a changed person. It wasn’t that I was (emotionally) scarred for life, although I was pretty upset for a while. I wasn’t necessarily jaded either despite the end being pretty traumatic and abrupt. And yet something felt very different…

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