33 Women Confess What They Worry About Before Hooking Up With A Man For The First Time

By Thought Catalog, October 19th 2018

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21. Literally everything about this scares the daylights outta me.

“Everything.

In other news, I’m been in a relationship for almost six months and I’m still a virgin because genuinely everything about it scares me

The fact that I have literally no experience??? Scares me. The possibility that a condom could break and I could get pregnant????? Terrifies me. The possibility that since I have no idea what I’m doing that I could be one of the starfish girls people complain about??? Scares me.

Literally everything about this scares the daylights outta me.”

—woahrebecca

Thought Catalog

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.