🎧🎶 "Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo"

After attending therapy for over eight months, trying to improve yourself and heal, it was definitely something you could indulge in if you wanted to. However, your mental health had seen better days, that was for sure, but your stupid, imbecile husband always managed to bring out the worst in you, causing you to throw away all the progress and hard work you'd put into your therapy sessions.

You could partly blame him for causing you so much stress and damaging your mental health, although of course, part of you knew that if you had left him, if you had done so from the moment he pulled that first shit on you, you would definitely be in a better situation...or not? After all, your idiot husband always said you were too emotional and frustrating. You even considered that maybe you were the problem, but thanks to the therapist you were seeing, she made you see that the bastard was just manipulating you. You weren't overly emotional or desperate, you were just reacting to his stupidities.

On the other hand, Joel never understood what you were doing with him, and what you saw in him that made you end up married to such a jerk. Of course, he wasn't perfect either; he had his own dirty laundry and demons, but he tried to be a better person, he really did.

Joel and you were friends, and neighbors, since you arrived in the neighborhood he was the only person who treated you like a human being, he shared certain things with you that he had never told anyone, he felt the trust in you as you in him. He constantly helped you repair something in your house when your husband was not there, because the very insecure fool, did not trust Joel, but he also did nothing productive in your house, he was a damn parasitic burden.

You often avoided venting to Joel, not because you didn't trust him, it was more because you were ashamed of him hearing how despite everything you were still in that place where they hurt you so much, you didn't want him to tell you what you already knew, instead you preferred to just talk about other things, and do anything but be at home, so Joel often asked you to accompany him to do some tasks and repair things he had to do and along the way he taught you what he knew...what you liked the most was how good you felt with him, he didn't make you feel stupid, nor did he block you with condescension or like an emotionally explosive crazy... Joel always offered you his shoulder to cry on if you needed it, he didn't question too much or pressure you, he was just there and that was all that mattered.