Finally got over my fear of kissing

My first ever boyfriend, at age 18, told me I was a bad kisser. He gave me multiple traumas (cheating, pushing for intimacy when I wasn't ready, etc.), but the "bad kisser" comment stuck with me the longest. The embarassment of being bad at kissing (which probably wasn't even true) made me not want to kiss anyone, even people I was sexually intimate with (I know, crazy). It hindered my dating life, because a lot of men took the swerve as rejection.

But more than a decade later I finally got over this fear! Shoutouts to the random man I made out with, who told me I was a great kisser. That is all it took (+ enough time passing). An overwrite of some sort, I guess. Looking back, I feel silly for ever having this fear, but today I choose be proud!!!