{"id":2295,"date":"2012-09-09T18:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2012-09-09T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:09:50","slug":"behind-the-smile-there-is-an-aching-heart-behind-the-laugh-she-is-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/2012\/09\/behind-the-smile-there-is-an-aching-heart-behind-the-laugh-she-is-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the smile, there is an aching heart. Behind the laugh, she is falling apart."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ex boyfriend and I broke up almost 2 years ago. We are each other first love.He was the first guy I opened myself to. I trusted him and in the end I fell in love with him.We were together for almost a year.It was a horrible break up and it took me a year of tears and yelling to learn to live without him. Despite the emotional torture I vented out on him, he was the perfect gentleman and stayed out with me till the end. It was the darkest period in my life. I cried myself to sleep everyday and I am ashamed to say that I even had suicidal thoughts as the pain was so intense I just wanted to end it. In the one year, I learned that he actually got into a relationship with another girl after 2 months we broke up. He hid it from me and lied to me with the excuse that I will not be able to handle it.We went our separate ways eventually and did not contact each other.<br \/>\nI am not exactly an ugly girl, I have a fair share of admirers. But till this very day, I have not dated anyone. I am not studying locally and I busied myself with other stuffs. I thought that I have been learning to move on and let go of my past, but I&#8217;ve come to realize that my past still haunts me greatly, when I come back home during semester break.<br \/>\nThe pain I feel, after 2 years is still similar to the one I felt 2 years back. I look around at others and I wondered the same question to myself over and over again, why did other people&#8217;s boyfriend stayed with them without giving up while mine gave up on me? I have this urge to ask him if he is as haunted as me and did he have any regrets.<br \/>\nMy hometown is not a very big place and surprisingly, I thank my lucky stars that we did not bump into each other. We have mutual friends too. Whenever I hang out with those mutual friends and they start talking about my ex,  I do not know where to look or what to say without looking stupid. I am friends with his best friends too and just talking to them, it aches me.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve changed greatly. The break up taught me that I am so afraid that the people I love will leave me. It taught me how scary when you hand out your heart and in return you have it smashed and return back to you.<br \/>\nI realize how afraid I am to being hurt again that I can no longer open up to anyone. I hold back a lot. But I cannot say I hide it well as some people see right through me.<br \/>\nIs it true that there is a solution to everything? What is the medicine for a broken heart? If it&#8217;s time, how long?<br \/>\nI thought I have stopped shedding tears for him. I have been so wrong.<br \/>\nMy heart is aching so badly and I don&#8217;t know what to do.<br \/>\nI wish I have never met him. My heart is a broken and scarred heart.<br \/>\nIt feels wrong to talk about it to others. I do not want to be pathetic. <\/p>\n<p><b>(Screen) Name<\/b>: Smiley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ex boyfriend and I broke up almost 2 years ago. We are each other first love.He was the first guy I opened myself to. I trusted him and in the end I fell in love with him.We were together for almost a year.It was a horrible break up and it took me a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.love-sessions.com\/confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}