by Gabriel, Sonoma
I’m proud of not only myself but my girlfriend. I am proud of both of us because we met about six months ago and at that time, I was not my best self. I was going through a rough time where I was homeless and not in my best mental mindset. What I mean by that is I was always a mad person – maybe mostly not mad but sad because I never had a family. I never was never told or showed by someone that they loved me.
Instead of being able to express my feeling to someone or finding something to help me cope – instead I would just get mad and sad and take my anger out on other people. I would this even if those people weren’t involved in it.
My girlfriend is a little like me. Her dad is not really in the picture but she does have a really caring and supportive mom. No matter what, everyone needs someone to look up to even if they have only one parent. No one want to have just one parent. Whether it’s your mom or dad, especially when you go away and you see or hear people having both of their parents and you see how fun it is and how things are different.
At first me and my girlfriend would bump heads because as you can imagine, two hurt people that don’t know how to communicate will end up not going so great. But, for some reason, we always stuck around each other and ended up expressing not only our feelings but also our trauma. We ended up having a lot in common and after we kept talking for a while we came to realize that we could really be good for each other because we both know how it feels to be hurt by people even if they didn’t mean it. Now six or more months have passed with us being real with each other. And now we have the best relationship we have ever had.