I want to be more than just your lover!

Respect is like a boomerang it only comes back when it's first discharged.

By Stanley Collymore

 

Do you love me? Sorry to put you on the spot but I’d really

like to know, for although you recurrently pay me loads

of compliments and periodically tell me how very

much you like being with me you’ve never once

in the time we’ve been regularly seeing each

other, over a year now I must remind you,

ever told me that you actually love me.

 

So am I just your lover and nothing more? I need to

know for my personal feelings for you are

unquestionably those of someone who

is profoundly in love with you, and

if you find it hard or are simply

unwilling to reciprocate them then I’d much prefer to hear

it from you not someone else, so I can civilly and with

my dignity still intact extricate myself not only

from a relationship that from a personal

perspective is patently unsuitable

for me but also one that quite

evidently where the two of

us are concerned is

obviously going

nowhere.

 

And rather than needlessly have it tiresomely drawn out in

the doldrums of despair, acrimony and possibly hatred,

as it inevitably will do if the current circumstances

that exist between us continue to prevail, I’d

like to end our relationship now, so that

we can both have the opportunity to knowingly embark on

a new start with different partners who’re individually

capable and, most importantly, quite willing to

mutually, unstintingly and courageously

dispense to each other the kind of

love and commitment that most

certainly, in my case, I’m

earnestly looking for.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

3 October 2013.

 

Footnote:

Curious isn’t it that while some people are quite enthusiastically and selfishly prepared to liberally indulge themselves in what’s undeniably the most intimately physical interaction there is between two human beings, no real concern on their part for the personal feelings of those whom they’re enjoying themselves with; no semblance of disclosure of their true feelings relative to that relationship much less a sense of loyalty or commitment to the individual involved is ever contemplated, revealed let alone acted upon.

 

Nevertheless, despite that intransigent conceit compounded by a blatant and ostentatious display of consummate immaturity by those acting in this shameful manner, interestingly enough without fail it seems they get away with their bad behaviour, and sickeningly so in the majority of cases, it must be stressed, to the obsequious approval of those who are the ones being intentionally used.