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My boyfriend insisted a gun would keep us “safer” up until the day he shot me in the face
Hopefully, for your sake, you got introduced to heartbreak in your teens. In many ways, having your heart stomped on and cut in two is better during a period of your life in which it's socially acceptable to cry while writing in a diary, because, a it prepares you for adult breakups, and b you're less likely to go on an alcoholic binge and spend a solid week coming down after you get dumped in year ten. There's a difference, though, between that immediate kind of heartbreak and the slow-burning one you experience in your twenties and onward until you die. This isn't the kind you have the emotional intelligence to experience at secondary school.
My revolving door of exes is a running joke in my family. Call me a self-proclaimed expert in red flags due to my misadventures in romance. However, my well-honed douchebag radar will be better used if my mistakes help others from getting involved these stereotypical types of toxic boyfriends:.