A Personal History of Dating Men With ‘Potential’
I convinced myself I could make things work, no matter the obstacle
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6 min readApr 8, 2019
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I have gone to extraordinary lengths to make people love me.
I loved my first real partner, the man I lived with in graduate school, because he was a delightful combination of strong and gentle. He’d experienced the harshness of the world and…