In honor of World Mental Health Day. What does it mean to be a strong supportive woman, partner? I haven’t considered myself strong in a very long time. I used to think I was but strength is not ignoring your problems and refusing to talk about difficulties and struggles, physical or otherwise. Strength means doing what is hard, screaming, crying and doing it anyway. 2 years ago everything changed, I began down a path that I had never walked before. I found a person who I never thought I’d find and began the tumultuous road to healing a wounded heart, facing my anxiety and learning how to be a strong partner and not a silent one. Not a path I wanted to walk or a road I longed to take but there I was wounded from 44 years of not truly living and seeing the type of person I’d always seen myself with right before me, just as battered and bruised and full of his own stories and wounds. We did not become a storybook romance, we became friends and confidants to guide one another through our pains and share happy moments along the way. But still I wasn’t strong, broken and confused and needing to get help. I, like all of you, are a work in progress only now I actually do the work. ...Keep reading in comments.