You Won’t Feel Brave

If you are public about what was perpetrated against you, get ready to hear some of the most heartbreaking shit
you’ve ever heard.

Get ready for people to tell you how brave you are, but you won’t feel brave, because doing this was never a question
you contemplated.

Get ready for strangers on the internet to tell you to
mind your own fucking business,
as though your child’s safety is not
your fucking business.

Get ready for your integrity to be questioned over and over, but rarely to your face because that will happen in
conversations about you
you’re not allowed to be part of.

When you hear about it you will want to scream that all you’ve done is be honest.

Then you realize: that is exactly their problem with you.