levi

but i can’t seem to stop listening to you

even as you continue to skip over my favorite parts of your lovely catalysitic tune

(All these songs were recommended by babes following @lovelysuggestions)

On Top Of The Word - Imagine Dragons

I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

Cigarette Daydreams - Cage The Elephant

Glorious - Mackelmore feat. Skylar Grey

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

I See Gold - Good Lovelies

So What - P!NK

Move Your Feet - Junior Senior

Pictochat - Dwyer

Cough Syrup - Young The Giant

One of the things that I really hate is that people don’t understand that survivors act differently and respond to their traumas in different ways.

I’m a survivor of csa and so is my friend. Her trauma made her extremely hypersexual while I could literally cry if someone even touched me.

My bf is a survivor of csa, I can talk for hours about my trauma if I felt safe enough while he NEVER brings it up.

A friend of mine is a survivor of emotional abuse and so am I. Her trauma made her angry while mine made me soft and defenseless.

My bf remembers every little detail about his trauma, while I repressed most of my childhood and traumas.

There’s no special “criteria” that you should fill in order to be a “valid” survivor, and there’s no specific way you should act if you were abused.

- // excerpt from a romance I will never write

So many arguments are saved by just opening your mouth and saying “hey hun, in the future can you….” Whether its articulating how you like to be loved, supported, or communicated with, you have to open your mouth. Your soul mate (IMO) isn’t the person that just always knows what you need when you need it without you telling them. Your soul mate is the person who hears your needs and thinks “I have no problem doing that because I love this person with my whole heart”