Breaking Taboos: The Power of "I Love You" ❤️

And over 2 years, I discovered who I really am, and it's nothing like what I thought I was. Nothing, nothing. And I say this is where my life, my true life, began. And I reconciled with my family, and it was, it was really huge because I was the first one in my family to ever say I love you, because we didn't talk like that. We people who— they thought people who talk like that were kind of something wrong with their brain or they're mushy or something. And, and so I broke that taboo. And when I said I love you, Mommy, and she was my tormentor, I love you, Mommy, she, she just broke down and sobbed for the first time I'd ever seen my mother cry because she had a big shield around her heart. And, and that word, "I love you," pierced that shield and it caused ripples in my whole family. They— when one person doesn't dance the dance, then the dance really can't keep going, right? And so, so I was the one who broke that taboo, and then everything started changing in the family. People started being nicer to each other, kinder, more careful about their words, and And so, so I was— I finished with no wounds.