Please Remember I’m a Real Person

I don’t really want to write this post, but I talked it over with the people close to me and decided it would be best if I just acknowledged it. I appreciate if you will just take it for what it is and not explore this topic further outside of this website.

A few years ago before my last relationship, before I was responsible (assuming I’m responsible now) when I was young and dumb and in love I made the huge mistake of taking some risqué pictures with a boyfriend.

Of course I made him promise he wouldn’t show anyone (at the time I was thinking about his friends).

I trusted him. We were in a very blissful happy place in our new relationship. I had never done anything like that before, but it seemed like harmless fun. I completely didn’t think of the potential consequences. My only real fear was that his older sister or mom would see them and give us a lecture on s-e-x or something mortifying like that.

It seemed harmless, just a few private pictures with someone I loved at the time. It was a once or twice thing. We joked about it. It all in fun and exploration and curiosity. No big deal.

Obviously we broke up and stayed friendly. It wasn’t a horrible break-up as far as break-ups go. There was a lot of hurt since we both loved each other at some point so we weren’t able to stay ‘real friends’. We had the kind of friendship where you text ‘Happy Birthday’ once a year and ‘Hope you’re well’ a few times. I didn’t think there were any long term bad feelings.

Until I was recently made aware that he had posted a few of the pictures of me (of course not the ones he was in too) online. My first reaction is to say, “What an a**hole!”

My next reaction is, “I am an a**hole! What was I thinking?!”

So yeah. I’m pissed. I’m pissed at him. I’m pissed at myself. I take responsibility for taking the pics. But this betrayal is horrible and embarrassing and heart-breaking and a million other emotions (I legit think I am going to need therapy now).

I’m just writing this to ask that if you see or hear anything about images of me that seem inappropriate – I do NOT give any permission for images of me to be shared, viewed, saved, downloaded or sent electronically in any format. Please respect my privacy and this request. Imagine if I was your friend in real life and treat me as such. Thank you.

(I was  tempted to give some lighthearted ‘advice’ about how if you are going to take pics you should at least crop out your face and deny it’s you. But it would be foolish to joke about something like that on a day like this.)RIL FOOL’S!!!

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