There's Only One Path In Life. The Path Of You.
I didn’t know my family was abusive until I was well into my teens. When you don’t know something is abnormal, you can’t develop defenses against it. You just absorb it as the way things are. How relationships work and what family means. You build your whole understanding of human connection on a foundation of … Read more
There’s a specific kind of panic that can only exist in elementary school. Not the abstract worry of adult life like bills, relationships, or mortality. Something more immediate and physical and utterly consuming. And when you’re six years old sitting in a first-grade class with a bladder screaming for relief while a woman who terrorized … Read more