‘At Least You’re Young Enough to Start Again’: What Not to Say to a Friend Getting Divorced at Thirty
Sinking the Situationship: Say Goodbye to Drama and Emotionally Draining Dating
With the casual nature of situationships, you’re never owed loyalty from the person you’re in it with. So, while you have those comforting nights together, you also have a lot of nights when you’re cancelled on, not replied to or ditched. The comfort against loneliness can be taken away just as easily as it’s given, and there’s not much you can do about it…
‘In an Abusive Relationship Your Partner is Your Happiness and Your Biggest Fear’: Overcoming Love-bombing and Gaslighting to Leave Toxic Situations
I didn’t leave his side, even when confronted with the biggest red flag of all: his domestic abuse charges. If anything, I was so blinded and confused by his showers of love that I felt like I needed to protect him from what those women were accusing him of. It took me a long time to admit to myself that I had been emotionally abused and to understand that I could have been another victim of toxic love if circumstances and an ocean hadn’t come between us…
‘If You Don’t Understand What It’s Like to be Sexually Abused, that is a Privilege’: To The First Boy I Loved After My Assault
Instead of doubting you, I doubted myself. It wasn’t until I heard what you did to other women that I felt like what had happened to me was valid. In all the sweet nothings I wanted you to whisper to me, you decided you wanted nothing to do with me. Our relationship lasted two-hundred-eighty-one days. You burned everything; you burnt me with it…