Choices to be made

“Sometimes it is as if we are going forward and things will be alright and then others I just want to throw in the towel and let us go our separate ways. But then I think that I really don’t want to go and start another relationship and so I want to stay and try a little more.”

As she spoke there was resignation in her voice; she knows what needs to be done but she wants to hang on some more. This sister has been trying for months to end a relationship with someone who is a few years younger than her. From the little she has told me, he has been using age as an issue and he has been manipulating her.

“I know what you are going to say,” she said, even before I uttered a word during our most recent conversation. “That I should walk away and maybe you are right but I don’t know man, it is hard. It is just that I don’t want to have to move from man to man.”