Force Me to Cede Love

For eight years, I supported Mathew and loved him just as long.

I thought I had hidden my feelings well.

Yet, the first thing Mathew did after becoming a business mogul was to send me off to a finishing school emphasizing traditional gender roles.

He looked at me with icy indifference, holding his fiancée close.

"Come back when you've let go of your inappropriate fantasies," he said.

A year later, I finally let go of him completely.

But by then, Mathew had regrets.