High and Mighty
A Homage to Women on High Horses | Final of the Letters to a Broken Heart Series
“Don’t be so high and mighty!” that’s what you used to say.
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The first man who told me to put my chin down was my boyfriend. It was about three to four weeks into the relationship, we were standing in the kitchen cooking or doing the washing up. I was in my early twenties, telling him about something exciting, something I was proud of, I remember having a spark in my throat that I wanted to spat out. It was the second serious relationship I had ever been in and I guess I thought it was a normal thing to say.
Except that I didn’t and it annoyed me. But relationships are work right? We all need to compromise a little, so that the other person likes us a bit better. So that we fit right into the space, that they carve out for us, and if the head is a couple of inches too high it needs to be pegged down a notch.
– Of course I am kidding. The problem is, he wasn’t. He felt I was being arrogant with my chin so high and did I have to use so…