Think about it. When your pet walks in from another room just to find you, that means they were somewhere else for a moment… and decided to come see you.
In their own simple way, their little brain thought about you. They wondered where you were, what you were doing, and they came looking for you.
They didn’t need anything. They just wanted to be near you.
That’s love in its purest form. Quiet, loyal, and completely unconditional.
“omg you remembered?” did you know that if you cut me up and looked into my heart you would find a small red door that opens into a room plastered with everything you’ve ever said to me and it’s all covered in glitter and fairy lights and paper stars. so yeah, i did remember
Children don’t “bounce back” from trauma.
They bury it.
And buried trauma doesn’t vanish it leaks out later as anxiety, rage, shame, addiction, and self-destruction.
So no, kids aren’t resilient.
They’re hurting.
Dear ladies never forget that: The same world that shames me for being a single mother also shames you for not being a mother and shames another woman for having too many children..lt shames one woman for having a child at the age of 19 because she's too young but also shames another for having at 36 because she's too old..lt shames a woman who marries young as well as the one who marries old..It shames women who don't have beautiful bodies and shames those who go under the knife to get the bodies. This world shames all women, not a single one of us is spared, not a single one. So love and make yourselves happy.
Before you ever miss a man that’s not your man… is your hair washed? Do you have lotion on your feet? Did you stretch today? Do you smell like vanilla? Did you pluck your eyebrows? Did you get on Pinterest? Did you literally do anything for yourself?