Episode 5 | When Someone Puts Their Hands on You and You Have to Choose Your Reaction

Your Effin’ Love Story · May 19, 2026 · 15m

I'm continuing my personal exploration of what informs my life, but this episode is about something that happened at work yesterday.

Someone put their hands on me aggressively to get my attention, then followed me when I walked away, telling me she wasn't scared of me and would fight me. What I want to examine is what happened inside me in that moment — the immediate impulse to react, the conscious decision not to — and the accountability I took afterward to ask what I could have done differently.

I'm not interested in presenting myself as a victim of circumstance, even when circumstances are…