# @thekoreanvegan on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ9m5hmyHgY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30783371-thekoreanvegan-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-22T16:30:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan (@thekoreanvegan) — https://gondola.cc/thekoreanvegan

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As many of you saw on my IG Stories, I had a little bit of a breakdown several days ago when I saw that a racist woman was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars by being racist. I talked about it with Anthony the following day and he started by saying, “I know how upset you were by that,” before offering his own thoughts and even advice on how to protect my heart a little better. First, by saying those few words in the beginning, I felt more seen than I can remember in a long time. It was an allusion to how often Anthony has seen me fall apart because of election results, a story in the news, a really bad opinion by 9 people in black robes, the deportation of US citizens, the erosion of human rights here and overseas. He gets that I cry, a lot, and instead of judging me for it, he loves me for it.

But it also occurred to me then how we are so complementary. I feel things so hard and he processes things so well. I open his eyes to what grief looks like and he helps me to cauterize those hurts. I don’t think I could handle it if my partner devolved into despair in the way I’m prone to do every time SCOTUS issues another anemic ruling or an executive order attacking a law firm gets published. And I KNOW things wouldn’t work if my partner was anything less than a ROCK every time I voiced my fears about my next cookbook or my writing career or anything else that will form the foundation of our livelihood. Every partnership looks different, but as I sat there listening to him confidently set forth a plan on how to protect me more effectively, I realized how lucky I am that Anthony is who he is.

And I hope hope hope that when he looks at me, even when I’ve bawling and shaking and raging at yet another stupid, horrible, outrageous thing, he thinks the same thing. “How lucky am I to have this woman in my life.”

The poem I reference in the video is “When You Are Old” by William Yeats. If you want the recipe to this green pea risotto, comment “recipe” below and I’ll DM it to you. <3

#storytime #cookingstorytime #risotto #vegan

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