My Personal Story
Content note: relationship violence, injury, emergency response:
One of the many reason why I do what I do...
I want to share a piece of my story with care, because I know how confusing it can feel when you are trying to make something work while your body is quietly telling you it is not safe.
There was a day that changed everything for me. In the chaos of an argument, glass was thrown and I was injured. For a moment I felt disoriented, everything fell black. I was a afraid that I lost my sight permanently. In my panic I rushed to the shower. Police and paramedics came, and I vaguely remember parts of what happened, but much of it is a blur. What I do remember clearly is one officer who was kind and warm in the middle of everything. I remember being in tears, and I remember the moment I knew, deep down, my relationship was over. Somehow I felt I was to blame for not keeping it all together. I ended up at the ER with staples in my head and filled with deep shame and embarrassment, not for what just happened, but also because I was a man. And the end of this day, my family was the support and love me.
That experience became a turning point. Not because everything got easy overnight, but because I stopped negotiating with what my nervous system and my soul were trying to tell me. I started the long, steady work of finding myself again. I started choosing clarity over confusion. Safety over survival mode. Truth over the fantasy that love means enduring harm.
If any part of you is living in that split place, where you are trying to hold hope and hurt at the same time, I want you to know you are not alone. You are allowed to choose yourself. You are allowed to choose safety. You are allowed to remember what real love feels like, starting with how you treat your own heart.
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