A young woman named Sarah was living in Ohio.

She had just gotten out of an unhealthy dating relationship.

I had a boyfriend at one point that I broke up with

because of emotional abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse. A few months following, he had decided to take his life.

But a lot of people were attacking me within the community

and saying this is your fault.

And so I was like, I'm not wanted here. Like, I want to get out. So that was hard.

Sarah tried to escape one painful relationship by getting into another one. She started dating

a man who was divorced with children. She thought they should move to Minnesota so this man

could be closer to his kids. But she also thought that moving would let her escape the pain of

her past relationship. It kind of caused like an upset because like he was on the same page with it.

He wanted to stay in work in Ohio and I don't even know why.

I mean, I was running away from things in Ohio trauma, things that had happened,

and I just wanted to get out, so that was, like, my way of, like, let's go.

Sarah and her boyfriend got engaged and moved to Minnesota.

But the new relationship and the new location didn't make Sarah's life any better.

You think you're going to be happy, like you get engaged, you're getting ready to get married,

and things are going to be going better.

Like, I wasn't happy in life, and I thought that this was going to make me happy.

And it kind of got worse.

Like, we would argue and fight, and his ex-wife was very much controlling and jealous. And so that put like a lot of weight on our relationship as well.

And I just kept wondering like when is this going to get better?

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