'When he talked about my body, it was a sign of how insecure he was. It wasn’t about about me at all' (LoraGrady 👏)
One morning after a fairly tense Thanksgiving dinner with my family, and I was sitting on my bed with my then-boyfriend Neal. He didn’t know it yet, but we were about to break up. I’d known for days that this was something I needed to do. I had just spent two weeks in Europe, which helped me realized that I was done with his overbearing and sometimes creepy behaviour.
Like my first boyfriend, Zach. I was 16 and chatting on the phone with him while eating microwave popcorn when he said, “Popcorn? That’s junk food.” “So?” I asked. I didn’t like where this was going; I stopped eating. “Yeah, you look good, so it doesn’t really matter.” A sigh of relief. Then came the blow: “But, you know, you could look a lot better.” I immediately teared up.
All three of those asinine comments broke my heart a little bit. But that text from Neal about his car sent me over the edge. I’d officially had enough of the bullshit and was tired of feeling less than. Not long after I ditched him, I discovered the body positive community on social media. I started seeing images and reading stories of women who unabashedly wore what they wanted and who were outspoken about being deserving. Slowly, I unlearned a lot of toxic tendencies.
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