January Nelson

The creaks you hear in the middle of the night might be a product of an old house. Or they might be the sounds of someone walking through your halls uninvited.

Lorena suffered from years of abuse at the hands of her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt. She revealed she was scared to leave him because he might kill her.

Just because someone doesn’t buy a million dollar house, it doesn’t make the house worth less than it is.

I didn’t have a job when we were first dating and he knew I was embarrassed that he had to pay my way for everything we did together. If we were meeting other people he would hand me cash before we got out of the car so I could pretend I was paying for myself.

If you have been thinking about filming and uploading your own videos, you should not hold yourself back for any longer. Take a risk. Grab your camera. 

Draw a circle on a pad of paper then place your writing tool in the middle of the circle. For whatever weird reason when I’m not too far gone that actually helps a lot.

When you disagree, remember that you’re on the same team. You’re supposed to fight a problem, not the other person.

Not practicing self-care. You’re not a robot and if you push yourself too hard and don’t take enough time off you’ll end up unhappy.

Stop apologizing. Every time you want to say sorry, say thank you. Thank you for waiting for me. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for talking to me.

If you put someone on a pedestal, you give them no choice but to look down on you.

This was like an episode of Jerry Springer mixed with Cops. Bride’s LOVER spoke up at that moment and yelled, “I’ll be god-damned if I’m gonna keep my mouth shut and let you steal my woman!”

Checking their phone when I’m in the middle of a sentence, when there was no sound or vibration that came from the phone, without addressing it immediately afterwards and pretending like I never noticed.

Gerald’s Game is a great book, but it also made me want to throw up.

Even fights are one sided. The other person just stops trying to resolve the issues.

I’m always trying to learn more things. It transforms the discontent of loneliness into the solace of solitude.

A huge picture frame full of pictures of my son. My sister-in-law took the time to go through my pictures on Facebook, save the best ones, get them printed out in different sizes to match each spot of the frame.

It doesn’t matter what’s going on in their lives. If they can’t make time for you, it’s because they won’t. No exceptions.

“On the same day, every year, is the smell of something burning. It can be detected in only two specific but unrelated parts of the house. You can even define the limits of where you can smell it by walking around. After about two hours it goes away. Until the next year.”