Falling in Love with Potential
Gaslighting and emotional invalidation have become so common in some relationships that many people do not recognize what is happening until they are emotionally exhausted. People often think a marriage ends the day divorce papers are filed, but the truth is many relationships end long before that. Sometimes a person has already emotionally disconnected after years of feeling unseen, unheard, unsupported, or constantly made to question their own reality. I know all too well what that looks like. My truth was working tirelessly day after day going to work, building businesses in every way I knew how, being a wife, attending school, caring for children, maintaining a household, and carrying responsibilities that never seemed to end, all while feeling like there was no one truly caring for me. I poured into everyone else while silently running on empty, yet I was still expected to perform day in and day out as if exhaustion, loneliness, and emotional depletion did not exist. And despite i...
