A Healthy Love After Abuse
7 min readOct 2, 2022
When I first left my last relationship I thought I would never date again let alone now be engaged to someone I can say without a single doubt in my mind is the love of my life. I was so scared to let my guards down, to open up my heart and anxious that someone wouldn’t have the patience to love me while I was learning how to be loved. So many times I have been triggered since being in this relationship, in ways I didn’t see coming…