Learning Curve

What did I expect?

You bare your heart and soul to another person.

You finally give verbal expression to what you're really feeling deep down inside.

You openly pour your guts out to someone you trust completely in an honest, no-holds-barred fashion without being afraid to be seen as weak, vulnerable, flawed.

You willingly lay out all of your cards on the table for the whole world to see, and of course, this is what happens.

It's astonishing to see the lack of a learning curve I posses with this sort of thing, given the amount of times I've put myself in this situation many times before.

I give, and I give, and I give—but what do I ever get in return?

Besides regret, that is.

Let that be another lesson to you.

How does a fish get caught?
He opens his mouth.

The cards are staying close to my chest this time around.