Writing Challenge - Just Say No

I have a lot of trouble telling people “No”.

I always feel I’ll get yelled at or upset people if I say “No”. 

I avoid asking people out so I don’t have to hear them say “No”.

I don’t take rejection well, nor do I like giving people rejections.

Only in the recent few years I’ve really started saying “no” to people. 

Especially ex boyfriends (one in particular) who constantly kept thinking it was okay to do the same things with me while I was with another guy as if we were together ourselves. 

Some guys understanding of the word “No” has completely put me off dating them for awhile now. 

Especially after a recent encounter where a guy saw I was single and automatically wanted pictures of me, after I said “No” however I got called a “bitch”.

Thankfully since we have a “Beware of Dog” sign on our gate we don’t have door knockers trying to sell us things. Before we got Millie after Coco passed away people from donation places and Jahovah Witness use to knock on the door all the time and I found it hard to turn them away. 

Most door knockers I just say the home owners aren’t home and they come back later only to be told to go away by my dad. 

I guess I just need to start being more brave.