Sam was my rough and tough cowboy, and I was his beautiful blue. Our relationship started out in early December, he’d steal little glances and I’d steal them right back. He was full of awe to me. He was just this perfect guy, funny, flirtatious, easy going, strong, passionate, loyal, everything you could ever begin to want. Sam and I were this beautiful symphony that magically never ran out of different notes to play. In the beginning of April, Sam and I decided that we wanted to be together, like actually together. It was the happiest time of my life at first, we would talk ceaselessly, and we’d be together the way we had always wanted to be when we were too scared. Sam acted like I was this perfect godsend, like an angel, and I suppose maybe to him I was. But Sam was afraid that he would break me. That I would be too fragile and he’d ruin me, like he wasn’t good enough for me. Sam decided that our relationship could no longer continue the way it was. That he couldn’t handle it. But see the problem was, I wanted to be with Sam, I wanted us to make mistakes together, to get in stupid fights with each other, to do goofy things together, I wanted Sam to be my everything. I wanted Sam to be my constant. And suddenly he wasn’t there, he slammed the door in my face, hung up the telephone, viciously avoided me, like seeing me or talking to me was going to hurt him or me or something. I became very suicidal, without that special Sam light in my life it turned pitch black again. I stopped eating, I cried more, I didn’t want to be alive anymore. I turned into someone I’ve never met before. Dark, brooding, angry, terrifying. Every little piece of livelihood I had left shattered. It wasn’t really Sam that did this, it was everything, but Sam was a drug, my drug, my coping mechanism, and he had just forced me into the world alone, and I had to quit him without any familiar comforts. Overnight Sam became a stranger and I a crazy person. With each day I felt my mental health speedily declining. I was rotting from the inside out. I kept grasping and grasping for anything or anyone to hold on to but suddenly the entire world stilled, quieted and I was utterly alone. I decided Sam didn’t define me that sure it was hell living without him but I could do it. I was determined to succeed at living without Sam. I would show him that I didn’t need him just as much as he didn’t need me.