Six months is close enough to two years – especially when so much has happened. In the last six weeks I have met and become best friends with Jenn Marda. We are like brother and sister and I can tell what she is doing or where she is or when I will see her even when she doesn’t tell me and she can do the same. We both believe that we have been brought together for a purpose even though I have not found out why yet. She has been a blessing which I know not the fullness of. I will record when I find out what the BIG reason for our relationship is.
June 12, 2022 when this was transcribed from my physical journal.
After 28 years I think I’ve long known “the BIG reason for our relationship” and this seems like a good place to record it as I currently understand it. I have to be candid and say that I probably thought at the time that the big reason is that we would eventually get married. I could be wrong but I suspect that’s what I thought when I wrote it.
In my physical journal at present there is a plastic page protector where a significant collection of notes and cards that Jenn gave me during our months together that illuminate that time in real time.
It has become clear through my experiences that the reason Jenn and I were together was what I had to learn from her as a survivor of abuse. She gained at that time a friend she could confide in at a vulnerable time when she needed that. I can’t say I was prepared for that at the time but I managed to respond appropriately when I was thrown in to the deep end of abuse recovery as she confided in me while processing her history and walked along the path of emotional recovery. With the number of abuse survivors I befriended in years since then, my time with her has helped to shape me and the ability I gained to be sensitive to the needs of hurting people has been invaluable.
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