Oh my God, I think this was the picture!!!!! I’m not totally sure but it’s so cute, it’s a miracle either way, thank you 💖

Mood 🫂

Same! I’ll keep an eye out 💖

Oh my god, I used to have a cat named Monkey 😭💖 cute

Awwwwwww 🥹

I hope that you, whoever you are, can cultivate the same kind of circle, where you’re free to be yourself, but also lovingly encouraged to be the best version of yourself

Love you 💖

This is the first time in my life that I feel like the Core people I surround myself with are people I don’t have to hide from

I’m not looking to the past and feeling sad about the days I didn’t have that, and in general, I’m not looking to the future in fear of losing it, either

While I think that the term “codependency” is highly overused and dismisses the fact that we’re social animals that need one another, I work to find a balance between leaning on others and coping through my own difficult times by myself

I’ve spent the last couple of years working very hard to see what I mean and also to make decisions that make sense to me in the long-term instead of leaning into short-term gratification

Neither of us raised our voices, there was no name calling or insults or anything like that, just me clearly expressing how painful one of his playful comments was, and how deeply sorry he was (which I can hear very clearly)

No excuses from him, just shock and remorse

To contrast, over the weekend, I was filming a bunch of videos for various sites, and I unintentionally captured a “conflict” with my boyfriend where I was triggered by something he said

Listening to our interaction has reaffirmed to me that I’m making better choices

Since then, I’ve had a a couple of close relationships with men who happened to have explosive anger issues, and I’ve only become more frightened by agitation in men - I have almost no tolerance and I’m quick to cut people off if they seem temperamental

It’s been almost exactly 4 years since I left my abuser. I have a video saved from our indoor cameras of out last real in-person interaction, and then many more that I scraped up before I got a restraining order