“Before you say yes, get him angry. See him scared, see him wanting, see him sick. Stress changes a person. Find out if he drinks and if he does, get him drunk - you’ll learn more about his sober thoughts. Discover his addictions. See if he puts you in front of them. You can’t change people, baby girl. If they are made one way, it doesn’t just wear off. If you hate how he acts when he’s out of it now, you’re going to hate it much worse eight years down the road. You might love him to bits but it doesn’t change that some people just don’t fit.”—
“I promise you my pain wasn’t poetic.It was days without sleep and pretending I was stable enough to continue.”—
“Motherhood met me young. Some may see that as a failure. I don’t. I have fully surrendered and succumbed to motherhood, letting it wash over me and smooth out all my jagged edges and shape my unruly parts. It’s healed me in ways I never knew I needed healing, and it all started with those two pink lines.”— Being a Young Mom Does Not Make Me a Failure, Lexi Behrndt (via eternal-hiraeth)
Forgive just because not having them hurts more…
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”— Friedrich Nietzsche