our long-distance love taught me was that I needed to learn how to trust someone who wasn’t nearby. Immaturely, I thought being close by made a world of difference, but it didn’t. Trust is trust, near or far. I had to learn how to go with the flow and not let the hauntings of my past dictate how I moved through this new relationship. That was the hardest part for me: letting go and letting love lead without fear of being hurt at every turn. Even through the self-work I’d done, trusting people, specifically men, was still rocky. The biggest risk I took with Ryan was not only believing that I
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