Shelby Youngmark

An Ode to Love

It had been a while since the separation. My mom had offered to take my daughter for the night to catch up on, well, anything and everything I had fallen behind on for the last four years of motherhood, or as she insisted, to take time to relax. I hadn't been on a date in ages, and to be honest I hadn't had much desire to as I had not been lucky in love. The men I chose to love never loved me... At least not in the way that I needed to be.