Escape The Darkness

"There in the end, things were pretty dark. I was in a deep, dark funk that I couldn't get out of. Things just didn't feel right between us. There was a ton of unspoken tension that was building in the silence. It scared me. And we never talked about it."

"Can you tell me more about that time...?"

"I was drinking wine every single night, every single one. I found it harder and harder to sleep. Either I'd sleep too much or not enough."

"That doesn't sound healthy."

"It wasn't. And to make things worse, one night I ate an entire chocolate bar with shrooms in it, thinking it would make me feel better..."

"And did it??"

"No. It took me to an even darker place. A place I never want to be again. I had convinced myself in that dark place that the only way to escape that darkness was to take my life..."

"Did you have a plan???"

"Absolutely. I was going to start the car he had given me in the garage and sit in it until I fell asleep..."

"How did you escape that darkness and come out the other side???"

"I decided to leave him."

"Why?"

"Because he wouldn't have understood that dark place, and I didn't want to ask him to help me out of it. I had to escape the darkness myself."