I'm the queen with or without you

One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find–– is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.

Beau Taplin, “The Awful Truth” (via afadthatlastsforever)

Why for example, does a twenty-two-year-old man pursue a sixteen-year-old adolescent? Because he is stimulated by her? Obviously not. They are at completely different developmental points in life with a dramatic imbalance in their levels of knowledge and experience. He is attracted to power and seeks a partner who will look up to him with awe and allow him to lead her. Of course, he usually tells her the opposite, insisting that he wants to be with her because of how unusually mature and sophisticated she is for her age. He may even compliment her on her sexual prowess and say how much power she has over him, setting up the young victim so that she won’t recognize what is happening to her. Even without a chronological age difference, some abusive men are drawn to women who have less life experience, knowledge, or self-confidence, and who will look up to the man as a teacher or mentor.

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft (via jolinxo)

For all my young and impressionable followers who constantly ask me if its okay to date someone in their late 20s whilst only being 14-16. No it’s fucking not. Please read this and let it marinate.

(via kushandwizdom)

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

Louis C.K. (via wordsnquotes)

Just pray to be married to someone that respects you, your feelings, your dislikes, your insecurities and discomfort, and your goals.

It’s one thing to love someone the way you want to love them and another to love someone the way they need to be loved.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“Look at those below you but not those above you, because you will become ungrateful.”

[Sahīh Muslim No. 7070]

I want a man who's so comfortable in his masculinity he doesn't feel threatened when I speak my mind.

“A weak man will say she has an attitude problem, a strong man will say she has an opinion.”

anyone who says that refugees should go back to their country should jump off a bridge. preferably the harbour bridge.