A Life Update & Some Thoughts On Why H8rs H8
Being in Rexburg for the last year has been the one of the harder experiences of my life. Adjusting to Rexburg from Provo was hard. My depression and anxiety spiked drastically when I got married, and I felt completely alone and isolated in a town where I had little to no support. When I tried to reach out and explain my frustrations and my heartache, I was told: "Well, at least you're married" and "You can't complain because you have a husband. I'm single and life is so much harder when you're single." (what) "BYU-I is better and if you don't like it you should just move." (what?) "I'm offended that you don't like it here. I love it, so why shouldn't you?" (what???) And my favorite, "Maybe you don't like it here because you're having ~spiritual issues." (WTF??????) These were people I barely knew, people I hadn't talked to in months, people I did not regularly talk to, people who knew n