I’m Done Living a Silent Life As a Divorced Woman
What to expect when moving on in your forties?
What to expect when moving on in your forties?
If you’re in your late teens or early twenties, you have no business being with a man significantly older than you.
Learning to be okay on my own was the only way I could walk away from toxic relationships for good.
You need to advocate for yourself and make decisions that prioritise your well-being and dignity at all times.
There’s nothing especially problematic about you that makes you exclusively attract people who end up mistreating you.
You’re more than being someone’s partner, someone’s girlfriend, someone’s wife, someone’s sexual escape.
It hurts being left in the dark; it’s heavy bearing the emotional weight of a failed relationship all on your own.
Findings from empirical research and how to apply them to your dating life
They will think twice before doing something that might hurt you because they know it would hurt them too.
Having spent many days of my childhood playing in my grandparents’ garden, it’s become my natural instinct to look for greenery wherever I go.
When your relationships don’t work out, it’s easy to blame yourself and think something is wrong with you. But a relationship’s outcome is neither about you as an individual or your self-worth.
Let’s make this year special and show your dad all the love he deserves. How do you identify your dad’s love language and make Father’s Day memorable for him?
Now is the perfect opportunity for you to slow down and reflect on your past relationships. Not always do you have this totally socially acceptable break to look into your dating patterns and think about what you ultimately want to do with your life.
After much hindsight, reflection, and many earnest conversations, I discovered the five characters featured in the stories of all of my solid long-term relationships.
Love is waiting — for text messages, for phone calls, for invitations. Love is coming second to someone’s work, hobbies, and travels. Love is justifying their hurtful remarks and disrespectful behaviours, telling yourself religiously they didn’t really mean it.
There are always some issues here and there, there will be times when I feel down and depressed, but at least now I know for a fact that I’m whole and I’m enough for myself and I’m committed to maintaining this healthy headspace regardless of where I am at in life.
I wouldn’t have to worry about making bad decisions because a decision based on good core values will always serve me in the long run.
Our issues and my past issues rolled into a ball too ugly and heavy that it took me months and months to crawl out of it.
The guy who likes the chase is the guy who cares about feeding his ego more than getting to know you.
You have to be okay with who you are. You have to be so okay that you can switch back to the “I’m on my own” mode anytime and start over again, from a place of strength.