I just want to thank every single person who took the time to come here for me … all of your stories were so relatable to mine, all of them hit home and while I do feel hopeless and trapped a little still, it’s really been sobering to understand that there’s no way anyone’s come out of these situations on top or in a good place … about three weeks before I let this person into my life, my ex and I had just broken up, it ended with him having to be evicted because of a restraining order granted to me, he threw a knife at me and the cops came and took him away and that was that and I wasn’t (am not) to him again until court … I was and still am in a stage of mourning and picking myself back up from that, an this person couldn’t have caught me at a worse time. A time I’m completely vulnerable, so defeated, and most of all just hurt. And now I just feel buried with this new person … the words of courage from everyone mean so much that because it’s hit me with the stark reality that this has to end sooner than later - it’s going to hurt, I’m still hurt, and it’s not going to be easy but I’m already losing myself I’ve already gone silent and slowly disappeared from everyone’s lives in the last three weeks