What I wish I knew before I got into a romantic relationship (Part 2)

But the crowd made the leap before I did, if I was even going to make it. The flow was going towards the popular narrative and so I got caught in the currents and submerged in it. How it progressed was wrong “This is not America Selina. This is the Marshall Islands. Going out equates…

What I wish I knew before I got into a romantic relationship (Part 1)

Sometime in the early months of 2014, I was sixteen and in my first romantic relationship. That ended more or less than a month, I think. I was a junior in the Marshall Islands High School.   It started with, “Do you want to go out with me?” Of which I thought meant just us…