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Are you in a toxic relationship that is stressing you out? Do you find it hard to deal with? Does it affect your confidence and self-esteem? Toxic relationships are incredibly damaging to us in a variety of different ways, affecting both physical and mental health. Dealing with one can be hard enough when it’s someone you can walk away from. But what if you can’t so easily remove yourself from their lives when it’s a parent, your co-worker, or ex?

When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the other girls. But as her sexuality blossomed in her teens, she knew she wouldn’t “grow out of it” and that her attraction to girls wasn’t against God. In fact, she discovered that same-sex relationships were depicted in the Bible, which she read devoutly, even if the tight-knit evangelical Christian community she grew up in believed any sexual relationship outside of marriage between a man and woman was a sin, and her society, Jamaica, criminalized homosexual sex.