Bruises aren’t always visible. Some bruises are left on our mind and heart. It sometimes hurts more than visible wounds ever will. Visible ones heal and go away. The ones on your mind and heart take a lot longer to heal, and sometimes never do. Those of us who have experienced verbal abuse replay the hurtful words that were said over and over in our mind. We struggle to break the thought cycles of them. We let it define us. We let it control us. By doing this, we’re allowing it to affect us long after they are said. The abuser doesn’t lose sleep. The abuser doesn’t even think about…

Honesty is not a common thing in relationships anymore. I believe the reason for that is because honesty can be painful and no one wants to cause pain to someone else. You may feel that hiding the truth is saving the other person from heartache or disappointment. This is false. By hiding the truth, it causes more pain in the long run than any truth would have, if told in the beginning. Being honest can sometimes have an outcome that we didn’t foresee. Should that make us hesitate or shy away from it? No, it should not. We should ALWAYS be honest, no matter what that outcome may be. We…