Dear SteadyFlow:

I paid attention not only to the content of your sharing but to the writing itself. You do write well, like a skillful writer, grabbing the attention of the reader who wants to read more and more. The skill with which you tell the story indicates to me that you either enjoy writing, maybe having aspirations to publish your own stories, perhaps, or that you are fascinated by your own story, enjoying still parts of it.

You start with last December,  then proceed to earlier in that year, then back to December, the Christmas party of 2017, “which is what happens next”, building the suspense, “Little did I know that this was going to be the bugging of a 4 month rollercoaster”, still building suspense, motivating the reader to read further. “I was living two lives…. Playing this very dangerous game”- this after texting with her during your flight back from Florida, a dramatization or exaggeration perhaps, a writer’s tool

Then there is the first kiss, “I had just kissed one of the most beautiful women I had ever laid my eyes  on”, you are certainly drawing the reader  into the story.

But wait, you wrote: “For the first time in a  long while, I felt Alive! Validated! Worthy!”- does it  mean that you didn’t  feel alive, validated and worthy in your relationship with your girlfriend in a long while?

anita