In the past, Emily had dated before. Though it had been more short flings than anything else. To her, it had counted as something that could be called a relationship, because that was all that she was certain that she would ever have.
But now that Emily was in a relationship with Derek. One built on trust, without any lies or active secret keeping going on, Emily was realizing something. She had never really been in a relationship with a man.
During those few relationships that she had been in. The two emotions that had been at the forefront of her mind when she had seen her ex-partners, had not been love and happiness. In fact, those had been the farthest things from her mind each and every single time that she had been in their presence.
