SharkEatingBreakfast

It’s okay.

Really messed me up, tbh. Told that my purpose as a woman was to get married and “please my husband”, no matter what.

As a teen, my desire to like boys never manifested. My youth pastor would preach about how women were princesses whose desire was to be saved by a knight, and men were knights seeking adventure. I always wanted the adventure, and I was completely ostracized for it.

Imagine being told that your purpose is to be loved, then realizing that your true self is something nobody will ever love.

It’s disturbing, and I was severely depressed throughout my entire young & teenage years.

(it got much worse, but I don’t want to go over that. Just know that I escaped that shit eventually.)

Ayyy my da told me that line about women, too!

I also am a woman!

My da told me “God does not forgive people who curse his name.”

I asked “But God forgives people who sexually abuse kids?”

“If they ask for forgiveness, yes.”

wHy DoNt YoU aTtEnD cHuRcH aNyMoRe??? lmao shut up.

Thank you.

Birth control was my savior and actively allowed me enjoy life again. 💕

Excruciating period pain that would leave me fainting and vomiting every. Single. Time.

“Every girl goes through this” said the doctor, convincing my parents that I was just “dramatic”.

Turns out I had huge polyps growing out of control! Left scarring in my uterus and high-risk when pregnant.

Dealt with that hell every fucking month since I was 11 until I got onto birth control in my 20s.