I hope you get to be with someone who is a home and an adventure — a soul who calms you and drives you wild. - Sylvester McNutt III

Healing from pain is a choice. You have to consciously decide that you deserve to feel free, that you deserve to let go of the weight that has been holding you down for too long.

My solution for this is to change the narrative. Stop making abuse, pain, and neglect your story. Simply acknowledge that it is a story that you experienced. Literally changing your inner dialogue from This is what happened to me to Here is what I learned from this situation will change how the stories of your past feel.

The emotion of love isn’t enough to keep two people together. There has to be communication, compatibility, understanding, and most importantly, there has to be desire on both ends to keep adding value to each other’s existence.