Reminder for all young parents:
You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager
This time is precious. Don’t rush it.
Jokes aside, people should pay more attention to the small acts of love and care when choosing a partner.
A partner who doesn’t make you feel ashamed or uncomfortable in your humanness. Snoring, hair, sickness, bodily realities, depression, grief.
That kind of acceptance matters deeply when choosing someone for forever.
As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s hurtful and manipulative, and it’s not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. Taking care of them is your responsibility.
Your heart is not a state secret. You are meant to declare allegiances. You are meant to have favourites. Write the letter. Miss the train. Stay up until dawn talking. You should be caught red-handed loving something, someone.
sounds like two people responsible and self-aware enough to know what they’re equipped to handle, and opted to avoid bringing a child into the world who would suffer and they would resent. 🤷🏾♀️
I have no interest in being around people who assign malicious intent to every mistake. If grace is reserved for no one, not even the people in your life, I can only imagine how harshly you judge strangers
People always say that everyone loves differently. You hear about love languages all the time. But here is the thing. Even when you are hurting. You still need to be able to consider the person you are with.
It is so sad. So many relationships end. People say things like we were incompatible. Or they fell out of love. Or it just did not work out. But when you look deeper. You often find there was just a lack of consideration.
What I would do for you. What I would show you. You might not even think to do the same for me. It has to go both ways.
Modern dating has everyone saying you should know when you are valued. And that is true. But sometimes it is also about compromise. It is about thinking of someone else too. So many people mix up self respect with refusing to meet someone halfway. That is not how it works.
I really wish more people understood what consideration actually means. What it means to truly value another person. Especially if you are talking about building a life together.
A lot of us still have so much to learn. You really have to work on yourself first. Before you can be what someone else needs.