What she says: I don’t want to feel like this anymore
What he hears: *Sky Sports News on the television*
What she says: Give me something to make me feel better
What he hears: Give me drugs
What she means: Give me hugs
What she says: Give me something to make me feel something
What he hears: Bring me all your fucking drugs, right now
What she means: Give me anything to make me feel anything, anything but this
What he hears: Drugs. Now. NOW.
What he thinks: “The drugs don’t work, they just make her worse,” but if it’ll shut her up…
What she says: Hold my hair back
What she means: Hold me back
What he hears: Here we go again
What she means: Hold me
What she says: *nothing*
What he hears: Let’s get wasted
What she means: *everything*
Absofuckinlutely! x
This is a lesson to me to stop hearing the wrong thing, to stop assuming the worst and to listen…most of all. X
As a wise man once said, assumption is the mother of all fuckups x