I am going to start this article by letting you know that I have a past that is chocked full of times of extreme trauma. The details of which I won’t get into for this article, but let’s just say that as a child and also as a young woman, traumatic events seemed to rain over my life in a way that made me feel like I had my own personal thunder cloud living over my head.This trauma greatly affected my relationships, both romantic and platonic, and caused me years of pain and inner turmoil. I often blamed myself[...]