I promise you, being alone teaches you a lot about yourself, it's so worth it. Vibing alone to work on yourself and figure things out is top tier self-care.
love is learning people’s triggers and hoping they can learn yours too, so you can better accommodate their emotional needs. trauma lives in the body. i won’t fault you for your initial response. i won’t judge you for the pain you didn’t even know was living there.
Ngl, being loved genuinely can definitely improve one's quality of life. Having a partner isn’t a necessity for everyone but being with someone who just wants to make your life easier, comfortable or sweeter is an unspeakable blessing.
We’re approaching 2 weeks since Hurricane Fiona came to Puerto Rico. More than 250k are still without electricity, according to Luma.
The south & west regions won’t get full power restored until the end of next week. We hear accounts every day of how hard life is w/o the basics.
you absolutely do not have to be ‘fully healed’ to be worthy of healthy relationships or friendships. there is no such thing as ‘fully healed’, anyway. as long as you are self-aware, inviting in calm and mature connections can be a relationally healing experience in itself.
All of us can be toxic. We all hurt people. We all have some narcissistic traits or coping mechanisms rooted in manipulation.
Some of us take responsibility for this and do the work. Some spend their life pointing out these traits in others.
Your choice.
Here’s how the abortion laws affect pregnant women who want their babies. For those still refusing to see how this affects ALL women, read Chloe’s story:
just because you understand someone’s behavior—or why they are the way that they are—does not mean you have to put up with it. no amount of empathy or understanding should ever come before your wellness, especially if their behavior hurts you or makes you uncomfortable
I said to my wife "Do you think anyone will commit suicide because they could not get an abortion?"
She instantly replied "yes."
Then she added "there will be all those boyfriends and husbands that murder them because they couldn't get one too" and that shook my fucking world.