the pain gap - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess

on dating, maturity, & the benign psychohorror of womanhood

tw: discussion of toxic relationships me, eighteen and two months immediately after i turned eighteen, i started going on a lot of dates with men in their early-to-mid-twenties. this is one of those things that doesn't seem like a big deal when you're eighteen but the second you become not-eighteen you’re like what the fuck!!! the distance between eighteen and everything else is perilous and insurmountable, but nobody tells you that until you’re twenty. at the time, though, i was not yet not-eighteen, and so i remember feeling a buried sense of pride at the fact that i was dating real…

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