I SEE YOU: A Woman Who Dared To Be Seen
How One Man Helps Me See Myself Again
by Katarzyna Laskowska
This is not a love story.
It is a story about love that sees your soul — even in the places you once turned to ash.
She walked through hell.
She learned not to trust anyone.
She knows the taste of disappointment, the silence after betrayal, the moment when the body runs even though the heart stays.
She believed no one would ever truly see her again. That love was something you only imagine — or live without.
And then he appeared.
Not a savior. Not a fairytale prince.
Just a man who looked at her as if he saw everything — and didn’t walk away.
This is not a story about love that fixes you.
It’s about love that isn’t afraid of your darkness.
About closeness that doesn’t try to change you — it simply sits beside you.
About a man who didn’t want to rebuild her — only to be there.
And about a woman who, for the first time in her life, didn’t have to earn her place.
But it is also a story about shadows.
About PTSD that returns in the quiet.
About ADHD that rips every thought into a thousand fragments.
About the old fear that whispers run — even when she is finally safe.
About a love that doesn’t always heal — but knows how to hold your hand when it hurts.
This book doesn’t follow a classic structure.
It is made of moments — written at 4 a.m., after a touch, after silence, in a car, in a café.
Sometimes chaotic, sometimes whispered.
Like a map of a soul learning to see herself, him, and the truth that exists between them.
It’s for the women who:
– once believed they were too much or not enough,
– stopped trusting love,
– still revisit old wounds even when life is finally calm,
– carry a spark inside, even if they thought it once burned out.
This is a story that says love can be different.
Without games. Without fear. Without pretending.
Love that doesn’t promise forever — but shows up, fully, here and now.
I see you.