They Called Me the Black Widow
Which is Why I’ll Probably Die Alone
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7 min readApr 25, 2024
Part of having bipolar disorder also means having questionable taste in other people as partners. For me, it was a lack of self-esteem. I never felt worthy. I didn’t feel pretty. Thanks to my mother’s bipolar bad choices and her men who abused me, I considered myself damaged goods. That said, all someone had to do was look at me a certain way and I…