Sab

romanticizing the ordinary, overthinking the unnecessary

[Sab @_justsab]

you'll probably find me thinking about something that happened 7 years ago

[Sab @_justsab]

I am happy because the people I spend time with are people who nourish my happiness, not prevent it.

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I enjoy my alone time, but I don’t want to be alone all of the time.

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Your ability to set standards stems from your ability to be alone when you refuse to lower them.

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I don’t believe in settling, and I am not going to settle down and commit to someone until I know they’re someone who’s worthy of my commitment.

[Sab @_justsab]

Love shouldn’t taste like debt and apology.

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My body remembers every time I swallowed a scream.

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I don’t sleep beside him — I hide beside him.

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There’s a part of me that dies every time I say, “it’s okay.”

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My heart whispers, “leave,” but my fear always answers first.

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I keep mistaking control for care because that’s all I’ve ever known.

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The mirror doesn’t show my face — only what’s left after pleasing everyone else.

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I built a home and somehow became the ghost inside it.

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He says I’m safe, but I flinch when he sighs too loudly.

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Even my hunger is a wound that refuses to close.

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My silence has become the only way I know to survive him.

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I learned to stop crying so he wouldn’t call me weak.

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Every “you’re too much” made me believe I should disappear quietly.

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He calls it love, but it sounds like an apology I never get.