I have been dealing with a lot of issues for the past ten years. Listening to some of your advice, I realize there's more to how I've been feeling than just insecure and jealousy. I feel hurt, betrayed, angry, insecure, hate, and broken. I've taken everything that has happened to me and held it in, and now I 'm finding ways to release anger, but in a wrong way. I stress over little things and bicker over nothing. I bring my past into my present and I will do everything I can not to bring it in my future. I started talking to someone to help me through this. I put on a smile around my family and friends, hopeing no one will see the truth. I plan on marrying my best friend and raise my children with love. I will not do to them what has been done to me. I live for them and now I also need to live for myself. Some of your advice was crucial and I didn't agree, but took it into consideration. Most of you though, were right. My priorities should be me and my family, my family and me, nothing else. After all, in the end, that's all we need, that and God.

I have learned that the more you look to the future and where you see yourself with your goals and focus on that the better person you can be.
Me and my boyfriend have been through way too much in life. I try not to think about the things I have been through and look at what I have been through as stuff that has made me stronger. He looks at the past and has so much bitterness built up in him that he gives up and is extremely grouchy at times. I feel like I am 50+ and just starting to have hope. Both of us being through way too much and yet we both handle it totally opposite.

I have learned that the more you look to the future and where you see yourself with your goals and focus on that the better person you can be.
Me and my bf have been through way too much in life. I try not to think about the things I have been through and look at what I have been through as stuff that has made me stronger. He looks at the past and has so much bitterness built up in him that he gives up and is extremely grouchy at times. I feel like I am 50+ and just starting to have hope. Both of us being through way too much and yet we both handle it totally opposite.

Than he is a lot like me. He needs someone like you in his life to help him deal. I am 28 years old and I am hopeing to deal with my past and try to let it go. I know it will always be a part of me, but I'm so tired of the burden it has put on my life. I wish I was more like you.

Letting go of the past is a lot like grieving.

Eventually you will come to terms with it. You have to.