Stephanie: "You know, I was just so angry about everything back then... I don't think I'd like my younger self if I met her."
Kate: "Well what do you think changed? What made you less angry?"
Stephanie: "The easy answer would be finding my partner. But that's not really it. It's not like he 'changed me' or something. He just... Allowed me to be vulnerable. It's letting myself be vulnerable that fixed it.
Before, I was, like, scared of being hurt. If something hurt, which was a lot of things, I'd just get mad so I didn't have to deal with that. But now I just let myself feel hurt and just deal with that instead of being automatically pissed off."