So every year, around this time, we’re going to have to march and beg men to stop killing us? Over & over again? Yo.💔
How many more women have to die before we stop having to beg for the right to live?💔This is truly gut wrenching.🧎🏾♂️
DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS VERSE:
“Call to me and I will answer you, I will show you great and mighty things that you do not know.”
Jeremiah 33:3
if i could make you understand just how badly you made me feel, you would probably never be able to look me in the eyes again.
because you didn't just hurt me in the moment. you changed the way i saw myself, and i don't think you'll ever fully understand what that cost me.
My fiancée and I got engaged a year ago, and our relationship has been so much better since then.
Materially, nothing’s really changed. We already lived together, shared a credit card, had group chats with each other’s families...
But getting engaged led to a mindset shift. We stopped evaluating each other (e.g., are they the right person for me?) and got to work building the best life possible with our relationship as a given. And that has been incredibly freeing.
For example, I’m convinced that a lot of our past conflicts were just uncertainty in disguise. When we'd fight, it wasn't actually just, “we disagree, let's resolve this issue." There was unspoken subtext: “Is this disagreement a dealbreaker? Do I need to put up with this? Would life be easier with someone else?"
Since getting engaged, we resolve conflict so much faster. We skip the “does this mean we’re incompatible?” step and jump straight to “how can we solve this as quickly as possible?”
Another huge positive is that thinking about our future has become way more fun. We’re fully a team now, and we can plan and dream together: her future is mine, and mine is hers.
The point I want to emphasize is that the only thing that changed about our relationship was our commitment to it. But that was all it took!
Things don’t need to be perfect first. Commit to something, and by doing so, you make it great.