Hello, I am a 20 year old lesbian. My name is Rhea and I’d like to write this because personally, I have been through enough relationships to know what’s healthy and what’s abusive, but the issues I have faced I couldn’t find a place to read about it and get some solid advice. And the people around only came with radical advices or could not empathize with the situation. Either because of social background or difference in sexuality.
Given the opportunity to write, I’d like to delve into such aspects. The sexual side, from partners not feeling the need and how to respectfully deal with it, to the other extreme and how to find a comfortable spot with your partner; the social aspect and how you can find yourself in a place where you need to navigate these hard environments and how to do such without your relationship taking a toll; being in relationships with people who suffer from mental illness, people who don’t want to deal with that, people who can’t accept there is a problem, people who do self-harm and how that affects you as a bystander too. I have a rich plethora of experiences from which I can speak and I think I can give you some content that’s not fairy tale nonsense, some real hardships that we are plagued with and don’t talk about and how to navigate it all or at least advice and from that anyone can take what applies to them.