amstar

One day last week I woke up with the odd sensation that I was happy. No fights, no dramas, some hope for the future. The man I love holding my hand in his sleep. News from home was cheery, my adopted little sister here was getting out of the mess she was in. I closed my eyes and soaked it in.

How quickly things change. I am awkward and uncomfortable in my own skin. It only takes one bad word to make my confidence plummet. One stupid pig of a man being sexually inappropriate to turn me inside out and upside down and not know my way out.

*mutters self-help words*
C'mon Ammy... don't forget you're stronger than you think.