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No one will ever fully be able to understand the internal battles you had to endure just to heal, just to grow, just to make it here today. Be proud of the way you fought to save yourself. Be proud of the way you survived.

Bianca Sparacino

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Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

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I'm afraid of what I will let myself go through for love.

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The best revenge is none. Move on and heal yourself so you don’t become like the people who traumatized you.

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You deserve a healthy love with someone who hears you, sees you, understands you, appreciates you, supports you, and loves you. Someone who is patient, communicates clearly, and creates a calm safe space to heal, grow, and bloom together. A love you don't have to heal from.

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“I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”

— Jennifer Echols, Forget You

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outside of your control is none of your business.

focus on what you can do. focus on what you can control, which is yourself.

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— Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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Once we start loving ourselves, people no longer seem good to us unless they are actually good for us.

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Be with someone who makes you happy.

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“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, love, anger, loss or betrayal, change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.”

— Unknown

it took me too long to realize, but i did not deserve anything that you put me through. it did not matter what was going on between us or with our lives, you were so unfair and so unkind to me and for what reason? what did i do to warrant that treatment from someone i loved and cared for so deeply? for someone that claims they loved me, you made one hell of an effort to show it. you could not have loved me the way i loved you, with the way you treated me and what you put me through. i loved you to death and i never would have even thought to do any of those things to you. i deserved none of it. but i suppose it never mattered to you if i deserved that treatment or not, you would have done it anyway. that is the difference between you and me. i do not treat those that i love like they mean nothing to me. did i ever mean anything to you? or was it all an act so you could use me and get what you wanted out of me until you were satisfied? i guess i will never truly know. and honestly, i do not really care to know now. i hope you got what you wanted out of me, because i will never let you come that close to me ever again. you drank me nearly dry and left me behind as a shell of the person that i used to be. before you, before everything.