RUIN ME, PLEASE

Part 12 (The End): What I Cannot Return From, I Return To

The way romance readers compulsively return to the trope of the virgin and the rake reminds me of the way we often inadvertently choose romantic relationships with people who reopen our core wounds. This is so common it has become spiritualized self help folk wisdom; a dating cliche as predictable as the plot of a paperback romance novel. There is a fer…