When people tell me what I went through made me who I am today, I call bullshit. I’m not going to say the pain was worth it because it did nothing but stifle me. I would have preferred a path of meeting and being mentored by strong women because my life would have been so much more of service to this world. I would have preferred to notice the red flags and skip the abusive marriage. I would have preferred all of those things leading me to learning about life before settling for an abusive man. I choose that now.
