Looking back, the 30th year of my life has sure been an eventful one and an age I know I'm going to be looking back on for the rest of my life. My dad and longtime molester had died, I finally faced all the trauma he put me through and my mom now knows everything that was happening behind her back all those years. That's been both good and bad for me. But if there's one major good thing that's happened with me this past year, it's me reconnecting with an old partner and starting a close but non-romantic relationship with him. One you could say "it's complicated" about, but it's one that's done more good for me than I ever imagined it could.

Today, I turn 31 and while I've spent the last year going through a lot of rough tracks that have been difficult to get through, it's also smoothed out a great deal for the last portion of it leading up to today. No one can know what the future holds, of course, but for now, I'm optimistic and hoping this happy place I'm currently in can last. Still plenty of work to do regarding my trauma, but I feel I've overcome the worst of it and am confident the things that are yet to come (and I know they will come) I'll be able to deal with more easily.

Happy Birthday!

Thank you.