Before we start, I want to give a quick content warning. This episode includes conversations about

emotional and physical abuse. Please take care of yourself and listen only if and when it feels right for you.

All right. Can you please introduce yourself and share what you're here to talk about?

Hi. And I'm on this and I'm here to talk about my past relationship.

That did trigger a lot of emotional stuff going to my life.

I think that is underselling what you went through to an extreme level. Before we dive in, you know,

if somebody were to tell you 15 years ago that this is a relationship you would end up in,

would you have believed them? No, I wouldn't. I always thought, you know, my relationship would be so perfect, you know,

like everyone else dreams about, never have I ever thought I would go through something like

that. Yeah. Okay. So let's start at the beginning. How did you and this person meet and what was going on in your life at the time?

So this person, his family used to be good friends with my mom.

His mom would work with my mom together.

And we went to high school together.

And me and his brother, we used to have history class together.

And, you know, they always talk about oh you know my brother likes you or my brother wants to ask you out and stuff like that but I never thought

you know he I thought it was just like a rumor never thought it was something true about

them then the days went on were like am I like a rumor, never thought it was something true about them.

Then the days went on where, like, at my sweet 15, he ended up asking me out.

I was like, okay.

I have never been with no one. I had never had my first boyfriend at high school.

So that was like the first boyfriend ever.

And I was super, super excited.

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