Content warning: Heavy menstrual bleeding, medical trauma and stress, surgery, reproductive health, medical racism, reference to historical involuntary sterilization. I had a period that lasted 26 days. It ended with

Content warning: Heavy menstrual bleeding, medical trauma and stress, surgery, reproductive health, medical racism, reference to historical involuntary sterilization. I had a period that lasted 26 days. It ended with emergency surgery to remove a fibroid from my womb. Before that, I spent weeks bleeding, calling doctors, forcing myself into

Content note: This post discusses alcohol and drug use, explicit sexual activity, questions of consent, and feeling used after a sexual encounter. This summer, I was involved with someone I’ll

Content note: This post discusses alcohol and drug use, explicit sexual activity, questions of consent, and feeling used after a sexual encounter. This summer, I was involved with someone I’ll call G for about six weeks. The connection was supposed to be casual, friends first. It quickly became too intimate,

Content note: This one is about dating, sex, rejection, and getting in your feelings about all of it.

Content note: This one is about dating, sex, rejection, and getting in your feelings about all of it.

Content warning: trauma, sexuality, kink/BDSM dynamics, age-gap relationship dynamics, dissociation, and blurred boundaries around care, submission, and control.

Content warning: trauma, sexuality, kink/BDSM dynamics, age-gap relationship dynamics, dissociation, and blurred boundaries around care, submission, and control.

Content warning: relationship anxiety, fear of abandonment, sex/dating, nonmonogamy, attachment insecurity, and struggles with self-worth.

Content warning: relationship anxiety, fear of abandonment, sex/dating, nonmonogamy, attachment insecurity, and struggles with self-worth.

Content warning: dating fatigue, sex, stigma, emotional overwhelm, mental health spirals, rejection sensitivity, and feeling reduced to your body. Moon: Gemini Sun: Cancer

Content warning: dating fatigue, sex, stigma, emotional overwhelm, mental health spirals, rejection sensitivity, and feeling reduced to your body. Moon: Gemini Sun: Cancer

This post is a collection of old, unsent phone notes from the same relationship, written between 2022 and 2023. They follow a months-long cycle of thoughts I could have shared

This post is a collection of old, unsent phone notes from the same relationship, written between 2022 and 2023. They follow a months-long cycle of thoughts I could have shared with my partner. These notes show how I tried to figure out closeness by guessing and reading into things, instead

Content warning and context: this post discusses sex, nudity, body image after major body changes, BPD disclosure, fear around intimacy, and old patterns of confusing being wanted, hunted, or hurt

Content warning and context: this post discusses sex, nudity, body image after major body changes, BPD disclosure, fear around intimacy, and old patterns of confusing being wanted, hunted, or hurt with being loved. It’s exhausting, watching someone fall in love with your public-facing self: the lilt in my voice; confidence

Content warning: eating disorder / disordered eating (discussion of food habits, body image, and recovery). contextual note: I had a gastric sleeve (weight loss surgery) in 2019. In 2022, I

Content warning: eating disorder / disordered eating (discussion of food habits, body image, and recovery). contextual note: I had a gastric sleeve (weight loss surgery) in 2019. In 2022, I was diagnosed with anorexia. I still technically carry that diagnosis. What did you have for lunch today?

I’m reopening Borderline Successful. Quick hello If you’re new here, hi. If you’ve been around before, hi again.

I’m reopening Borderline Successful. Quick hello If you’re new here, hi. If you’ve been around before, hi again.