48. Emotional Damage
Honestly, the girl I broke up with in my senior year of high school.
Absolute sweetheart of a girl, but an absolute crap show of a home life that 18-year-old me didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to deal with.
When I broke up with her, she said, “You were supposed to be the one who saved me from this.”
Tore me up for a few years. But she did find someone who treated her well. So I feel less guilty about it. But damn it if I don’t remember that conversation vividly 15 years on.
Bawled like a baby on the drive home.