Alaya Dawn Johnson (@alayadj): "I have both lived this and been a witness to this in someone I love so dearly and it is unspeakably painful on either end. Thank you for articulating this so beautifully. As the Buddhists say, may we be free from suffering and the root of suffering."

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I have both lived this and been a witness to this in someone I love so dearly and it is unspeakably painful on either end. Thank you for articulating this so beautifully. As the Buddhists say, may we be free from suffering and the root of suffering.

In Land of Enchantment, I wrote, “What’s hard to understand, but what I know to have been true, is that I was more afraid that someone would successfully convince me to leave Jason, than I was of staying with him.” I knew what they would tell me: that I deserved better than this. But I wasn’t yet ready to face that my entire self-worth was attached to him wanting me. I didn’t have the self-respect to leave him in New Mexico. I was addicted to the highs and lows of our relationship.

Leigh Stein

Apr 3

5:36 PM

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