Tony Stark (616), cool exec with a heart of steel (tonystark) wrote in thedoorway,
I have.
I was engaged, you know. When I became Iron Man. I was way too young to get married, it was a terrible idea anyway, but I did love her. I broke it off because I couldn't tell her who I really was. Then I thought about it again. I was going to propose to a girl I'd been seeing for a long, long time. But she died because of who I really was. I guess it was something I always wanted, but then -- you know. I'm usually happy to get back on the horse when life knocks me down. But that's the sort of failure that makes you start to think it's time to give up. You know? You're not just hurting yourself anymore. Maybe you're just not one of the people who gets to have that. You just don't get to love somebody like other people do. And that's okay. That's the decision I made, and I'll live with it. There are a lot of things I would have wanted if I were a different man.