Where I Finally Breathe

They called it love, even when it hurt— and for a long time, you believed them. You learned to stay quiet, to keep the peace, to be the version of yourself that made things easier for everyone else. But now you’re starting to see— love isn’t supposed to feel heavy all the time. It isn’t supposed to make you small. You’re allowed to speak, to take up space, to want something kinder than what you knew. And little by little, you’re learning how to choose people, and build a life, that feels like home instead of something you have to survive.