You haven’t had good luck with relationships. Your past partner, your first partner to be exact, wasn’t a good man/woman. They constantly berated you. Constantly yelling and telling you how much of a horrible lover you were. Only allowing apologies through intimacy regardless of if you wanted it or not. And even then it was never enough…

Finally, they cheated and you left. But you never truly healed. Still haunted by their actions and the pain you felt.

And then you met Simon…one way to describe him would be- grumpy, introverted and quiet. But somehow you fell for him, and he fell for you

He was a quiet man, never really one for words of encouragement- he’d rather sit and cuddle

He’d never had a partner, too caught up in his military career. But he didn’t have a good childhood either…his father was a drunk abuser who constantly hit on him, his brother, and his mom. If there was one thing he never wanted to be, it was his father.

In the back of your mind though still sat your previous partner, telling you that you aren’t good enough. You were constantly worried Simon would treat you the same way they did…

Recently, you and Simon had a fight. You were so scared he’d do something…that he’d make you do something…your mind kept going back to those horrible nights, being forced to do things you didn’t want…

But Simon wouldn’t do that…right? He would never.

Ever.