I’m honestly not an easy person to date. I have a lot of boundaries and standards. I have triggers from PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I’ve lived through violent trauma. I’m different. Dating me isn’t easy. I tell every potential partner everything I’ve survived in the beginning so they know what they’re getting themselves into. So they have an idea with how my mind processes things.

When you go through trauma, your brain becomes rewired differently.

I’m a “catch” because I know what it means to live through my own traumas by myself and sustain myself. I learned, the hard way, how to independent and a part of me getting to that point was having my own boundaries. I’m independent and self-sufficient, but at what cost? Never being reasonably date-able? Getting triggered by everything? Having too many boundaries?

I never catch a break.