Jane looked in the mirror and didn't like what she saw, she was too fat, too short, and too ugly. Luckily, she thought, she already had a boyfriend. They had been together for a long time, it wasn't the best of the relationships, but at least she had someone who would share his life with her. It didn't matter she wasn't really happy, it didn't matter she sometimes wondered how would it be to be with someone else. Nothing mattered, because she couldn't get anyone better than Josh. Sure, he wasn't perfect, he was far from that, but he was there for her. Jane was scared of doing things on her own, so he was a life-saver.
Sometimes, when talking to her friends, she would complain about things, and they would always tell her to dump him, why was she still with him? She would only say that they didn't understand how relationships worked, and that they would when they found the one, fooling herself into thinking that Josh was right for her.
Jane's friends saw it differently, they had known her from before she had started dating Josh, and she had changed for worse. Josh was a manipulative douchebag, who would make her feel bad about herself and push her into doing things she didn't want to do. Jane had become submissive, giving it all for him, and, despite knowing deep down that she wasn't happy and that she didn't love him, she was too afraid to break up. Her friends knew that she though she would never be able to be in a relationship again if she left him, that she though she was hideous, but that sense of insecurity had been instilled by him. Josh was just a parasite living out of Jane's vital force, draining her energy until she became the weak housewife he wanted.
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