'I Thought It Was Love, But Now I'm Not Sure!'

Obsessively categorizing the past is a way of avoiding the pain of the present and the uncertainty of the future.

Zephirium apochripholiae (Windwort) (1997), Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

I don’t know where to begin.

I’m standing in the wreckage of something I thought was love, but now I don’t know anymore and that uncertainty is killing me.

It was a relationship that was filled with the kind of intensity that seduces you into believing it must be love by how good it fe…