Love is kind, patient, love is with pure intention. Love never gives up, it is our only hope for peace and it should be our mission in life.
Brittany, 28
Incarcerated: 3 years
Housed: Wyoming Women’s Center, Lusk
How do I see love?
It took my desire to love and to be loved to reach a point of explosion. I decided to stop being that door mat, the person everyone could use and abuse however they pleased. Love was as strange to me as a foreign language. Love meant my parents fed us so we could focus on something other than survival. The circumstances of my unfortunate beginnings instilled in me a sense of low self-worth and created an ideal space for us to beg for every ounce of affection. It wasn’t long before I was an adult by law, but a struggling and scared child at heart. Having spent my entire life focused on the well being of my siblings and myself, I was convinced love was just a fairytale. What stood between me and my dream of being loved was the idea that I wasn’t worthy of such things. I have seen examples of love and have formed my own opinion on how people should be loved. I learned it doesn’t hurt, it is something we can and should give freely. Love is kind, patient, love is with pure intention. Love never gives up, it is our only hope for peace and it should be our mission in life. When judged, scorned, forgotten and abandoned, choose love. Love because you can, not because it’s beneficial or expected. This is how I see love.
ThIs is my fiancé,She has blossomed into one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever had the privilege of interacting with.She has let the (light of love) consume the darkness of unforgettable and unwanted upbringing’s and let love flow through her daily existence.She has become what I believe love is and should be.