Rachel Bledsoe

The relationship I fought for felt like an everyday dividing of my spirit. It could never be healthy. It would never be happy.

Emotional abuse, it’s harder to see than the physical abuse.

Love isn’t guaranteed. It isn’t money in the bank. It’s an emotional bond. When you do enough damage, you sever the ties that bind. 

Those times don’t exist. They never were real. 

Memories don’t wash off. They stick, and sometimes like seasons, they come around again.

We’ve earned our respect.

There is a place where a girl becomes a woman. You pushed me there. You knocked me off the cliff and forced me to learn to fly. Hard. Fast. I opened wings I didn’t know exist. I had to believe everything you said is a lie.