On my wedding day, I walked in with a black eye. My fiancé stood beside me… and when he looked at my mother, he smiled. Then he said, “She needed to learn.” The room burst into laughter. And that’s when I did something no one expected.

a few weeks after the wedding, Olivia found herself sitting at her small kitchen table, her journal open in front of her. The sound of the coffee brewing in the background was the only noise filling the room. She stared at the page in front of her, the pen in her hand shaking slightly as she tried to find the words.

“I don’t know who I am,” she wrote.continue reading …