you can't teach CONSIDERATION. it’s either a person NATURALLY thinks about you and how something will affect your feelings, your comfort, your safety, your peace of mind, and your heart or they DON'T.
cutting people off feels different now. it’s not anger, it’s grief. like dang… I really wanted you here, but your actions showed me I’m not safe with you.
Narcissists have no empathy. No guilt. No accountability.
They cheat. They lie. They destroy.
And still sleep like nothing happened. Stop trying to understand them. Protect your energy.
Wait… in my many years of breathing on this earth, I’ve never heard, “She didn’t know how to be a woman because she didn’t have a mother figure in her life” (even when girls are raised by their dads)…
But men??? 👀👀
"Men suffer in silence."
No, they don't. They make the people around them suffer instead.
They offload their pain onto the women closest to them. Every time.
My man told me something the other day that lowkey rearranged my brain a little.
He said, “I’m not here to control you. I’m not your father, I’m your partner. You’re grown, you can make whatever choices you want. Just know every choice comes with consequences. If you pick something that hurts what we built, that decision belongs to you.”
Then he goes, “I’m always gonna tell you when something hurts me or crosses a boundary, because that’s how real communication works. But if I show you where the line is and you keep stepping over it, then you’re not protecting us… you’re just choosing yourself.”
And yeah… that’s when it clicked for me. Accountability in a relationship isn’t yelling, rules, or control. It’s someone giving you freedom and trusting you to care enough not to misuse it.
A big lesson I learned about love later in life is that we just can’t make a relationship work with someone who doesn’t have the capacity to self-reflect and understand what patterns they need to work on in order to make their relationship loving and peaceful.
a lot of women are actually very understanding when you’re honest with them, especially if they already like you. you really don't even have to do all that lying.