If we date, don’t stop being you. Keep having fun, keep seeing your friends, keep chasing your goals, and keep enjoying your life. A relationship should add to your life, not take away from it. Just make sure you save time for us too.
They shooting the messenger, but she ain’t wrong. Dating and sex were heavily demonized in a lot of our homes. We were told to stay away from boys and focus on school. The problem is that relationships are a skill set too and many Black women were prepared for careers but left to figure out dating, boundaries, and healthy partnership on our own.
there has quite literally NEVER been a question in my mind as to whether her mic was on. 😭 there are a LOT of singers that will make you wonder but Tasia ain’t never been one of em.
As a woman in her 30s, I’ll tell the girls in their 20s: focus on your education, build a career, and get your money before anything else. Everything else will align in time.
I always say happiness over history. If a man has repeatedly shown you pain, inconsistency, disrespect or emotional confusion, your history together is not enough reason to stay. Familiarity is not the same thing as peace