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Student @ Nasarawa State University
The place you broke me
<p>I trusted you in a way I never trusted anyone else.</p><p>Not loudly.</p><p>Not blindly.</p><p>But quietly—like someone placing their heart on a table and believing it would be safe simply because you promised to watch over it.</p><p>You knew my fears.</p><p>You knew where I came from.</p><p>You knew the parts of me I never explained twice.</p><p>When the world was loud, you were my silence.</p><p>When life was heavy, you told me, “I’ve got you.”</p><p>And I believed you—because your voice sounded like truth.</p><p>I defended you when others warned me.</p><p>I chose you when it cost me friendships.</p><p>I stayed when leaving would’ve hurt less.</p><p>What hurts the most isn’t that you left.</p><p>It’s how you stayed… just long enough to destroy me.</p><p>You smiled at me while lying.</p><p>You held my hand while breaking me.</p><p>You told me “nothing is wrong” while I was already bleeding inside.</p><p>And the day I found out, the world didn’t end.</p><p>It just went quiet.</p><p>No dramatic scream.</p><p>No tears at first.</p><p>Just a strange emptiness—like something precious had been stolen and my body didn’t know how to react yet.</p><p>I replayed every memory, searching for the moment you stopped loving me.</p><p>Was it when I trusted you too much?</p><p>When I forgave you too easily?</p><p>When I chose you over myself?</p><p>You broke me so gently that no one noticed.</p><p>I still laughed in public.</p><p>Still replied “I’m fine.”</p><p>Still showed up.</p><p>But inside, I was grieving someone who was still alive.</p><p>I grieved the future we talked about.</p><p>The promises whispered in low voices.</p><p>The version of you I believed in.</p><p>You didn’t just betray me.</p><p>You taught me how painful love can be when it’s given to the wrong person.</p><p>Yet even now, I don’t hate you.</p><p>I hate the way you changed me.</p><p>I hate how careful I am now.</p><p>How my heart hesitates before trusting.</p><p>How I flinch at kindness, wondering when it will turn into a knife.</p><p>But if you’re reading this—</p><p>If this story feels like your own—</p><p>Please know this:</p><p>You weren’t weak for loving deeply.</p><p>You weren’t foolish for trusting.</p><p>You weren’t wrong for believing.</p><p>The betrayal says everything about them.</p><p>And the pain you feel?</p><p>It only proves how real your heart is.</p><p>Some people break us.</p><p>Others read our stories and feel seen.</p><p>And sometimes… that connection is what keeps us going.</p>
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