Falling in Love After Abuse

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It is terrifying. To trust, to hope and to love. It is hard to process the differences in a love when all you have known before was abuse and awfulness. I had resigned myself to the fact that perhaps I would be alone and I would be okay with that. I have built myself up strong and have healed a lot. I have looked inwards to a greater depth than ever before and I can say with an unshakeable voice that I now love myself, even the parts that…