Put on your own mask first. Most people don’t understand that if they don’t love themselves and don’t pay attention to their own needs, they can’t be there for others either. If your basic needs are not fulfilled, you will yell at your kids or your partner, you won’t have patience, and everyone else will suffer just because you ignored yourself. Your own well-being has the biggest downstream effect on everything else in your life.
Told her my rent was due just a week into talking, She stopped talking to me.
I wasn’t even asking her to pay for my rent. It was just a conversation.
I dodged a bullet.