After a major traumatic event, like the loss of a close loved one, or even several smaller traumas, like moving to a new city, you start view the world from a much more negative perspective than you once did.
Don’t think that any relationship was a waste of time.
This is a mantra I sometimes have to tell myself when I’m about to do something that makes me feel nervous: I have anxiety, but I am going to do it anyway.
Everyone is flawed in their own beautiful way.
Make sure that if you are in therapy, you feel it is a good match and that the person will support you. It’s almost like dating. Sometimes you will outgrow the person and sometimes it is a long-term match.
Not everyone will treat you poorly.
As time goes by and I have to make more of my own decisions, I begin to wonder what her motives were in the way she chose to live her life.
Being a fire sign, they like to exude confidence, and part of the way they do that is through their clothing, nice homes, and flashy cars.
Now that I am in a bit of a better place, I can see that had I just tackled my finances early on and made it a priority in life, I wouldn’t be in the situation I am currently in, paying off loans from years ago and continuing paying off credit card debt with no savings.
I once offered to move and he would tell me not to do that for him. It was just as I suspected — he wasn’t ready, and he was seeing other people.