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You forgave, and forgave. Until there’s nothing left.

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I’m working through this the best I can.

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You have been mercilessly violated, manipulated, lied to, ridiculed, demeaned and gaslighted into believing that you are imagining things. The person you thought you knew and the life you built together have been shattered into a million little fragments.

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She wants you to know her pain, but she doesn’t want you to leave.

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We fought as hard as we loved. But love we did. It took five-years for us to figure out it wasn’t working anymore. Neither of us have any interest in converting, and this here was the biggest issue in our relationship. Religion.

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Experts say that addiction acts as part of an extended post-traumatic coping mechanism – in other words, the solution for the pain of trauma.

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I can feel it in the oxygen that enters and leaves my lungs with ease. I can feel it in the deepest part of my chest, which no longer feels like it’s full of stones and broken glass.

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Contrary to popular opinion, asking for help does not make you helpless or powerless.