That Dope Love Won't Shut Me Out

What is love? That was the million-dollar question. If someone presented ten stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills before me to answer that riddle, I’d lose it all. I couldn’t say what it was, but I could most definitely describe in detail, what it wasn’t.
My name is Dominique Johnson, known to family and friends as Nique. I’m a trust fund kid who aspires to prove to everyone that because I was born into money, it didn’t define me nor alter the fact that I’m humble. As a teen, I had love all mapped out. I knew what I would and wouldn’t accept nor tolerate from a man. My idea of a partner was cut and dry, until the day I met a guy named Spencer.

Everything I knew, had jumped out of the window. The rules of love had changed.
His New York accent along with his swag had me smitten. I was so head over hills for this man that I took his infidelity and covered the bruises just to keep him. My unwavering love and loyalty to him had me second-guessing my own sanity at times. After giving him five years of my life, he betrayed me in the worst way. It wasn’t until he gave me an STD, that I knew love wasn’t shit.

My motto from that day forth was simple, and Jazmine Sullivan said it best, “Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?”