I was never taught how to know and love myself first before entering a relationship. It was always about conforming and allowing my values to be pushed aside for the idea of “potential.”

I have an inkling that this is true for the majority of people – the divorce rates show that something is definitely amiss within how we connect with others. No, it is not because “there are no good men or women,” but because (hear me out) we have never been with ourselves first. I know that sounds ridiculous, and I really didn’t understand this until I did it. Until I was single, like very single, with no entertainment of another person in my vision. I didn’t know what “the other side” felt like until I experienced it, and now, I get it. Once I was able to look at my dating life, I was able to look at how I was showing up in other relationships.

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Are We More Comitted to the Other, Than We Are To Ourselves?

Relationships. What was the first thing you thought of with that word? I am sure that it was a romantic type of relationship. As that is the most natural response, we are in constant relation to everything, and I want to … Continue reading