[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I wonder if my future husband is sitting at home thinking about me the same way that I am thinking about him or is he still figuring out himself the same way that I am and I catch myself thinking about it's tiny little moments in this day like I wonder what he's watching on Netflix this week or what was the funny joke that he heard recently or if he's currently [SPEAKER_00]: off somewhere traveling to a remote village in Northern Europe to live on a farm for a few weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we'd never know, but then once I come back to reality, I realize that I have truly been dreaming about the highlight real of love and not all of the real stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: The real love can be messy, it's learning from the people who weren't right for me that helped me notice the patterns that I refused to bring into my next relationship.

[SPEAKER_00]: The next one being the one where my future husband is present, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: and figure out what I actually deserve may be the best way to find out isn't out there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's in here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's in how I write about myself, how I reflect on myself and refuse to settle for less than the love that I want.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I say all this to say that sometimes those little daydreams can be more than just fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can use them as a chance to check in with ourselves and see what's really going on under the surface.

[SPEAKER_01]: How are you for?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do these all as proud we're so proud of you?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do these all as proud we're so proud of you?

[SPEAKER_00]: What is going on beautiful people you are listening to the affirmations for Black Girls podcast?

[SPEAKER_00]: When we focus on personal growth and cultivating a healthy relationship with ourselves, I am your host, Tyre the Creative Actress Content Creator and Mental Health Enthusiast.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you guys are listening right now, this is a video episode as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: So go over to our YouTube channel.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you would like to, you know, watch along.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now lately, y'all, I have been having a lot of feelings.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have even just today, I have been feeling like I'm behind.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have been feeling like I am mediocre.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have been feeling like I may not get the love story [SPEAKER_00]: And I found myself just kind of stuck in a few day dreams because it's a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: It feels a lot better to be there in this season than I'm in right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it does to actually deal with what's happening in the real world.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually dealing with like a lot of feelings of doubt and feelings of being afraid and worried about what the future holds for me when it comes to specifically romantic relationships.

[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, it's just so much easier for me to just sit in a day dream all day because in my day dreams, I have control over what that looks like.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have control over making sure that [SPEAKER_00]: it's just been so nice to be there versus dealing with the actual feelings that I'm feeling right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as much as I love to dream about the future, I have learned that journaling is one of the best ways to get clear on what I actually want and what I need to work on in my life and also one of the biggest things for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: getting clear on what I refuse to settle for.

[SPEAKER_00]: So before we go ahead and jump in to everything that I want to talk about today, we have to jump into our affirmation of the week.

[SPEAKER_00]: This week's affirmation is, I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go ahead and drop [SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, my mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind, and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say it together one last time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I deserve a partner who respects my heart, mind and soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y [SPEAKER_00]: I was not respected and I didn't necessarily realize that as early as I think I should have, I kind of just, you know, suppressed that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Granted, everything happens for a reason we know this, but I want to start actively living in a space where anyone who comes into my life romanticly, moving forward truly respects me as a whole person, the whole person that I am.

[SPEAKER_00]: and transparently speaking, earlier on in my life, it just wasn't something that was truly a priority.

[SPEAKER_00]: So today's episode is just a reflection episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I urge you guys to grab a journal and write as you go if you have time or if you just want to listen through to these prompts and then take some time later on, that's okay as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will say that everything that we are talking about today, the journaling prompts, are linked down below in the show notes of the episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you are watching on YouTube, [SPEAKER_00]: they are in the description box down below and I have created an e-journal for you guys so you can print out all the questions and there's space to write with each question and you can just really have some time to truly take some time to reflect on the things that you need to work on the things that you want out of like all of the things.

[SPEAKER_00]: So with that being said, I've talked about this before [SPEAKER_00]: Here are my current two journals here.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one is I told you guys in the previous episode that I am currently doing the artist way with my best friend Brea and this is a journal that I write it every morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do my morning pages in this journal and we're supposed to do three pages a day.

[SPEAKER_00]: You girl hand been cramping up a lot, but I have a journal for that and the I have to get journals that actually like really work for me like I'm excited to write in so this one says never stop growing and has all types of plants on it and is super cute.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I've been doing that every morning and here, but I told you guys a while ago about this other journal, and I got both of these journals from Target, but shop wherever you want, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: So I got this other little journal called on the front of it, it says, right it down.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when I brought this journal up to you guys before, well, it's a no-pad, but when I brought this up to you guys before, I said that, [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times, the things that are near and dear to my heart that I truly want out of life, sometimes it's hard for me to articulate them in prayer, through words, and something that through audible words, through dialogue, and something that has always come a little easier to me, is writing down what I feel or to express myself in on paper.

[SPEAKER_00]: and so everything inside of here these are like my prayers to God and I just pray over this notebook and just say God everything in this notebook this is the desire is my heart okay and it just makes it a little easier for me one day I really want to get to the point where it's not so hard for me to say some of my deepest desires out loud but I think when I was growing up I kind of conditioned myself that way you know sometimes we're like oh we don't want to [SPEAKER_00]: I took that very seriously, I was like, well, I don't want to jinx my life and I'm still trying to unlearn those tendencies that I instill within myself because it really wasn't anybody around me that was actually saying girl don't do this and all that type of stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm still trying to actively unlearn those things that I was doing as a child.

[SPEAKER_00]: So get you a notebook again, my says write it down.

[SPEAKER_00]: I need mine to be on brand at all times.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we're just going to go through these journal prompts.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the first question is, what lessons did I learn from my last relationship?

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of times on this show, I talk about my longest relationship, which is not actually not my last relationship.

[SPEAKER_00]: My last relationship lasted a little under a year, and I never really [SPEAKER_00]: talked much about it, my last relationship because it hurt.

[SPEAKER_00]: It hurt when that relationship ended.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't expect it to end.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of abruptly and it wasn't done in a way that I think was very nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Long story short, I got ghosted after almost a year of being together but almost like a year and a half of dating.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got ghosted and I still have not talked to that man to this thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's been almost three years now.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this has been some time, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: But I would say one thing that I learned from my last relationship is no matter how uncomfortable a conversation may be, it always feels better to have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: with a partner that you actually want to be with.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really have a lot of like bad or negative things to say in that relationship because I'm actually proud of myself and how I handle myself in that last relationship because I actually wanted to be with that man.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really [SPEAKER_00]: In my mind, we were on the same team and it was never me against him and I really wanted it to work out And I was also going to therapy once a week at that time.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it was very I had my life set up in a way Where I had the support that I needed to have a healthy relationship to cultivate a healthy relationship So I would say that's one thing that I learned from my past relationship It didn't last long there wasn't much that went on so [SPEAKER_00]: That's something that I learned, but I will say that relationship was a lot more healthy at least until you know what happened happened, that relationship was a lot more healthy than the one prior to that that I'm always talking about on this podcast and some of you might be like, why'd you always talk about this relationship?

[SPEAKER_00]: I will say this, the relationship that I was in when I moved to California, I moved to California in 2018, so how old was I?

[SPEAKER_00]: 23 years old.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that was a very pivotal time in my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: of my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there were things and I was really like my first long-term relationship.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just learned so much about myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: I started to see where I needed to work on me and where I needed to love me more in that relationship.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why I talk about it so much because everything kind of just like, [SPEAKER_00]: blindsided me in that relationship because I when I went into that relationship I wasn't really thinking about okay, this is healthy.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is not healthy.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I should be doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I want this is what I can bring through the table.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I need in the partner.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is my attachment style.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is my love language.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't thinking about any of that stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay, he want to be with me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't go much past that.

[SPEAKER_00]: and growing up in the deep south.

[SPEAKER_00]: One thing that is ingrained in you, but not necessarily through people telling you, but it's like subconsciously ingrained in you, is that love is hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: Love is rough.

[SPEAKER_00]: Love is [SPEAKER_00]: hurts and I embody those things even though my mama and you know people like that didn't say girl love it's hard You just need to stay with that man.

[SPEAKER_00]: That never that was never said to me But seeing certain things it kind of just like gets put on you and I think that's why I was in that relationship So long so I'm gonna talk about that relationship as much as I need to because I'd know what's other girls out there who have been in situations like I was in that relationship [SPEAKER_00]: I know there's other girls out there who are taking care of growing me and I know there's other girls out there who are being manipulated by their partner.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know there's other girls out there who are in a situation as they don't think they can get out of who feel stuck.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that was me for about four years of my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a care that man.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was stressed out to the max.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember one of my friends Daria said to me one time, this was like right after we broke up.

[SPEAKER_00]: She was like, I haven't talked to you for real in like four years.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know what, that makes sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: I started to isolate myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: I felt so I didn't feel alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're like nobody was there for me, but I was so stressed out that I didn't have the energy to talk to my friends and the way that I used to talk to my friends before that or the way that I talked to them now I was always stressed out because there was always we're always fighting I was always having to pick up extra job so I could pay for both of us to live out here in LA like it was a lot of that type of stuff going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I honestly did not have help or support.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was 23 years old taking care of a almost 30 year old man.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he'd let me do that because I was boo-boo-boo to fool who went ahead and let it happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: The next question is, what patterns do I want to break?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the biggest pattern that I want to break that I have seen even in my last relationship and the one before that and all of them that I've been in is sometimes when something is very uncomfortable, I can [SPEAKER_00]: hold it near and dear to my heart instead of having that conversation with my partner head on.

[SPEAKER_00]: I start to feel a little embarrassed that I feel this way about something I try to suppress it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I try to make it seem like it's not a big deal to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's not fair for one to my partner and it's not fair to me to not bring that to the table and say, [SPEAKER_00]: This thing I'm struggling with or this thing I'm dealing with or this makes me uncomfortable I'm feeling a little discomfort here.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to be on the same page about this thing I want to break that pattern another pattern that I would love to break is what I'd be considered to pick me for this Anytime not any any time but I don't know what I mean [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times, I get into a relationship with a guy just because they have asked me to be their girlfriend.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, well, he wants to be my boyfriend.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm single, so I should just do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I've been like that since high school.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is a pattern that I have actually said, girl, we don't break that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was actually put in a position where I had to tell a guy know, I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but I would say, yeah, about this situation, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all, I was dating this guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: What am I going to tell you about this man because I've brought this man up before?

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was dating this guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: This was like what a year to a year ago now a little over a year ago now I was dating this guy and he had five kids a full baby mama's and apparently he had been married twice and apparently he was 32 years old [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we have been dating for a little while before I finally asked him if he had kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, uh, because something I saw on his page, maybe say, oh wait, he has a child.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I asked, I finally asked, and he was like, yeah, I have kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, kids, how many kids do you have?

[SPEAKER_00]: And that said five.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we had been talking for a little minute, not too long, but we haven't talked for a little minute at that point.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, oh my gosh, you have five kids and you didn't think to say that up front.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he was like, well, I just really wanted you to get to know me first, I didn't want to bring that up because when I say that to people, they don't give me a chance.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I'm 29, and you have five kids, like that's a lot, like, [SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot, so you don't matter to some people, but that's a lot for me, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for being honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't ask a friend at the beginning of the beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: So okay, I'm not gonna write you off just yet, but as we continue to talk, I found out that he was a liar.

[SPEAKER_00]: y'all that may have been about everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not about his kids and like all the type of stuff, but just he would just like it would just be little lies that he would tell and I don't like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was very, it was very weird.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like he said that he was going to be in the next Black Panther movie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sir, what is a lot like this was this was years ago at this point or a year ago year and half ago when we stopped talking so at least two years ago when he was saying I'm going to be in the next Black Panther movie I have my audition next week and I was like how did it call you for an audition and they don't even know the main character that's going to be in this movie yet like they're not even putting information out about that yet one of them know who won't direct it yet at that point nothing had been green lit [SPEAKER_00]: and he's not an actor or anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it was just very, very weird.

[SPEAKER_00]: One time he also lied.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I'm telling y'all this.

[SPEAKER_00]: One time he also lied about going to the dentist.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was the it was the weirdest [SPEAKER_00]: he told the weirdest lies and he also, I really think that he also lied about being in a Greek organization, which we would call a purp.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he was purping in work and it was just too much.

[SPEAKER_00]: The story is just never really made sense that he would tell and I was like, you know what, I don't really want to do this.

[SPEAKER_00]: So everything came to a head when we were supposed to [SPEAKER_00]: And we have been planning this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently we have been planning this for like a couple of weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was just gonna be for a couple of days.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he told me, okay, everything is booked.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you just need to be ready to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, okay, he booking stuff, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what this is about.

[SPEAKER_00]: So a couple of days before the trip, I'm noticing that he's not talking about the trip anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, well, I don't wanna be that person.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay, I was still going on the trip like what's going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, he said he booked everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a just pack and make sure that I'm ready to go the night before the trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember I was getting ready for bed And he FaceTime me and I was like, are we still going on a trip tomorrow because you haven't talked about it in like a week And he was like no actually we not going on a trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot what he said But I also did not care after that because you told me that everything was booked So are you losing the pass it?

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to trip or did you not book this trip at all?

[SPEAKER_00]: and I didn't really like that because he had talked it up so much that it had to be nothing but a lie because if it was really something that you were actually going to do whenever you couldn't go on the trip anymore you would have said that you couldn't go on the trip anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like okay well at that point he had been like lying about stuff and like little white lies y'all nothing super crazy but he's like why are you telling all these [SPEAKER_00]: Little eyed lies and now we're not going on a trip and he got five kids and I was just like this is It's not fun like I thought it would be because I when I went into this I was like okay Well, I'm just starting today to again, so I'm just gonna see where this takes us, right now at this point It had been like two months [SPEAKER_00]: of knowing this man, two months.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so the thing with the trip fell through and I was like, okay, well, I'm a back off because it just felt like he was just not being a genuine person.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, okay, well, whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I didn't talk to him the next day.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the day after that he texted me and was like dinner at catch at five p.m.

[SPEAKER_00]: Question mark.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I looked over Alex, it was in the car and I was like, Alexis, he just sent me this message.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she's like, go to the dinner.

[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all, at this dinner, this man.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you go to catch LA, which is like a bougie place in LA.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not a bougie girl.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like a little, my pop shop, home, and whole and wall, all of that type of stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to try to wild me with expensive dinners, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: The tab ended up being like $500.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he made sure that I saw the check.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's, I don't like stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, right before after we finished eating and all the type of stuff had fun had a good time, but I see the entire weight staff coming out with like a a bowl and a candle and stuff and I was like, oh somebody got you know something a good tree or some y'all they made they way to our table.

[SPEAKER_00]: This man had the whole wake staff come out with like a brownie dessert thing and they stood at the table and I look down when they put it down and it said, will you be mine?

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh my god, this is happening.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing, two things here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love a grand gesture.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really, really applauded that grand gesture because there has literally been no guy ever who has done something like that for me, but I think it was manipulative.

[SPEAKER_00]: You blew a bag on me.

[SPEAKER_00]: After I expressed that I was upset about the trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't upset like, how you do it?

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, well, it's just weird how you handled us not going on this trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the night before the trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you still haven't said anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had to ask.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's like, no, we're not going.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we didn't talk the whole day the next day.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you want to ask me to be your girlfriend.

[SPEAKER_00]: The next day.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you be lying, and you got five kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't even say this, but one of the kids was like a newborn, like two months old.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it was just too much.

[SPEAKER_00]: And normally, if I were younger Tyra, I would have said yes in the moment, because the white staff was just standing there, trying to get me to answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, I just almost stood.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, [SPEAKER_00]: because I didn't know what to do, and eventually they left.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, all I said to him was, I can't say yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say yes, I can't say yes, I can't say yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, I can't say yes, I can't say yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he was visibly like a little upset about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like, sir, it's been two months.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you be lying a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you got five kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to feel this out a little bit more before, because I feel like you love to hop into relationships.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the one thing that he said about his five kids that made me go, oh my gosh, was, [SPEAKER_00]: He was like, yeah, I think my, my purpose on this earth is to just raise black kings.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, and I was like, oh, okay, we'll do you think you're done having kids?

[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, no, I'm just getting started.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're done.

[SPEAKER_00]: We guess that's just too much.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's just too much because he has five boys and I was just like that's that's a lot for you to come and ask me to be your girlfriend at that point in time when you have a new born for one and you have all these baby like that's a lot that's a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we weren't in front of people would have said I just felt like I had to say to it because it was a grand gesture and the way staff would just stand in there But I think once they realized that I wasn't gonna say a resounding yes, they're like, okay, this is awkward.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me go ahead and go [SPEAKER_00]: but that is a pattern that I am so glad that I have already been put into a position where I had to break after I, after it was made known to me, or after I discovered that that was a pattern that I had.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and the last question in this section is, where have I accepted less than I deserve?

[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this already, so I'm gonna just keep it free for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I accepted less than I deserve in that entire relationship that I was in when I moved to California.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was so stressed out, I didn't feel loved, we were constantly fight about things like having furniture in the apartment.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to get all of our furniture off of the street.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, I don't want to have all of my furniture off the street.

[SPEAKER_00]: Our bed was on the floor, the entire time we live together.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the first six months of living together, he didn't pay his half with the rent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anytime I would bring up any other stuff about money specifically, he would cry like crocodile tears cry.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not over exaggerating.

[SPEAKER_00]: He would cry.

[SPEAKER_00]: He would boohoo.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was very manipulative.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it just wasn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: I never felt like he liked me.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I stayed in our relationship because we were in a new place.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know anybody else in California.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it became comfortable.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't want to be alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I would say that's where I've accepted way less than I have deserved.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also found out that he was paying some girl rent back in, [SPEAKER_00]: new jersey like it was it was a lot of stuff like that going on while I was stressing myself out making sure that we had what we needed over here and it just wasn't reciprocated in a way that anybody should have to deal with.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's when I accepted less than I deserve.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to say the the biggest things that I have learned from reflecting on past relationships is that [SPEAKER_00]: growth starts with actually being honest with yourself.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can't heal what you won't acknowledge.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you take time to really see your patterns and not judge them, just see them, you give yourself a chance to do better next time.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about blaming who you were.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about understanding her and who you were then so you can show up differently now.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of the other parts of myself that I'm like, [SPEAKER_00]: take a second and really reevaluate is one thing that I will say more so negatively about myself in that first relationship that I had when I moved to California.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got to the point where I didn't respect him anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you get there, you need to leave because I used to [SPEAKER_00]: to that man.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I did not care because I had been stressed and stretched and bent out a shape in that relationship in ways that I never needed to live in for extended periods of time for so long that I didn't care where came out on my own.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't respect him because he wasn't really helping out.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was having him around but he was up dependent.

[SPEAKER_00]: And [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot treat people that way, and that is not okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: That wasn't fair to him, and it wasn't fair to me to keep myself in a situation like that any longer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So once I said, you know what, I don't want to be like that in my next relationship after I started to reflect on all of the different things that happened in that one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, it's time to grow and growth starts with being honest with yourself.

[SPEAKER_00]: How do I show up in relationships right now, emotionally, mentally and spiritually?

[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't been in relationship for quite some time, so I don't really know how I show up in relationships.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can just talk about how I show up in platonic relationships, which can be different for each and every one of us.

[SPEAKER_00]: But to answer that question based on my last relationship, I will say I show up very open [SPEAKER_00]: I give a lot of grace and sometimes I wonder if it's almost too a fault, like do I give too many chances, do I give too much grace, meaning I not putting myself first and I'm not making sure that I have everything that I need in a relationship, I like to, I think I have a very slight tendency to like project men.

[SPEAKER_00]: like people who are a project for me, I can help them do whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: But at the root of all of that, my intention is to show up fully as myself and show up and want to give 100% in that relationship, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.

[SPEAKER_00]: The next question is which of the five love languages feels most like me?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first, [SPEAKER_00]: I want to go through the five love languages just in case you don't know what a love language is or what they are.

[SPEAKER_00]: So a love language is literally just the way that you express and receive love, the language in which you understand love as a whole.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there is words of affirmation which is, and I'll give an example of each one.

[SPEAKER_00]: So words of affirmation is when you [SPEAKER_00]: encouraged or appreciated and spoken to with kindness, acts of service is another one which means actions mean everything to you when someone helps lighten your load it makes you feel seen and cared for.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then there is receiving gifts which is it's like it's not about the price tag, it's the thought and the effort behind the gesture that makes you feel valued like if a partner [SPEAKER_00]: You know how to be a bouquet of roses or you have been saying oh my gosh, I really really have been craving jolly ranchers all week and on his way home he grabs you some jolly ranchers and he brings them to you like that's receiving gifts then there's quality time, which is undivided attention and being fully present matters more than anything fancy to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's physical touch like a hug or a hand hold or a simple touch that says, I love you louder than words ever could.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I took a test just to see where my love language lies and it's still the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have recently been feeling like, oh, physical touch is my top love language right now in this season of life.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say physical touch, quality time, and acts of service are all pretty much equal for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: But with this test that I've just took, and you can find any tests online and answer some questions and it will give you an idea [SPEAKER_00]: My top one is acts of service, and the test start to extend your love tank overflows with acts of service, a thoughtful selfless deed, or gesture, is sure to win your heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: When a loved one goes out of their way to make your life easier, you feel connected to them, and act of service communicates that you are their top priority.

[SPEAKER_00]: Actions for you speak louder than words.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love language as acts of service so I really hope that you guys take a second if you don't know what it is or if you just want to check and see if it's changed because it is different or it can be different with how you receive love versus how you give love mine is generally the same but I will say now I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: give love with physical touch a lot more than I used to and that has actually surprised me as I get older, but take a test and see where it falls try to see out of what I just said like which one you think it is and then take a test and see if you are aligned with what you think your love languages and the next question is how do I naturally express love to others I kind of touched on this a little bit, but I love acts of service as a for.

[SPEAKER_00]: Potonic love and romantic love and their romantic love.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say acts of service and physical touch.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love to touch all my girlfriend's too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not like that, but you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: I love to, I'd be like, ee-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e [SPEAKER_00]: and give it to friends, or I will cook a pot of red beans and say, hey, y'all come eat.

[SPEAKER_00]: Giving acts of service really fills my cup just as much as receiving acts of service.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say, so that's how I have always naturally shown love or express love to others.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would actually be curious to know, like, if any of my friends think otherwise, like, [SPEAKER_00]: How do I naturally express love to them that I would actually want to know that I need to ask.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next question is what standards and nine negotiables do you refuse to bend on?

[SPEAKER_00]: In this day and age, as I am 31 years old, I refuse to bend on my faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: In the past, I have dating guys who say they are spiritual, who say they are, you know, [SPEAKER_00]: the things that they do just don't align with the type of Christian man that I am looking for.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can do whatever you want, but we need to be equally yoked.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to for more or less have the same morals and standards and think the same way on that level, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, of course, I'm looking for someone who can challenge me in certain ways, and I hope that I can challenge them in certain ways to certain areas of their life.

[SPEAKER_00]: in the spiritual sector of our lives, we need to be equally young.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want a God-fearing man.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is one of the biggest things that I will not bend on.

[SPEAKER_00]: My biggest not negotiable.

[SPEAKER_00]: As far as standards, hygiene.

[SPEAKER_00]: Baby, if your hygiene is bad, we cannot talk.

[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot, especially like your dental hygiene.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will say, dental hygiene has become so important to me because did you all know that you can transfer cavities by kissing?

[SPEAKER_00]: I just found that out, like, [SPEAKER_00]: When I was like a few years ago, when I moved to LA or whatever, I read it somewhere and I have always Gone to the dentist and all this stuff, but once I got kicked off of my mom's insurance Aren't actually a few years before that I stopped wanting to the dentist, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I moved to LA and I was like, I gotta focus.

[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta do, you know, X, Y, Z [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember one time I had to go to the dentist, well, I had a headache, a really bad headache.

[SPEAKER_00]: And my mom was like, maybe you have a cavity, maybe you need to go to the dentist.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, girl, what are you talking about?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have no cavity and how I got a cavity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Long story short, y'all, I ended up meeting a root canal, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: It ever since then, I went down the rabbit hole of dental hygiene, because I thought I was doing all the right things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Granted, I wasn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: going to the dentist as often as I should.

[SPEAKER_00]: I should have been going like twice a year, but I was one once a year at the time because didn't have insurance, all of the things, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I learned that you can get cavities from other people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And let's just say that at that time, I had kissed people that had cavities, like visible cavities, lots of them in their mouths.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know what that?

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't do that because if I'm taking care of mine over here, [SPEAKER_00]: Which granted I wasn't taking that good a care back then, but I have a pretty nice set of teeth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, never had braces, nothing right and having to get that rookie now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was just like, what in the world like that is crazy never again right.

[SPEAKER_00]: So after more than a rabbit hole, I was just like, I'm going to make sure that I'm doing what I need to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: inside my mouth dentally okay and I need to make sure that my man is also doing same thing so hygiene is very important but at the top of that hygiene list is definitely dental hygiene because you're going to be kissing me in the mouth with all that going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be kissing me in the mouth with inflamed gums.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be kissing me in the mouth with all that tartar on your teeth that plaque build up baby.

[SPEAKER_00]: We got to go to the dentist.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's important.

[SPEAKER_00]: We got to go to the dentist.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the last question for this section is, what kind of love do I know I give best?

[SPEAKER_00]: For me, I would say that it's still mine.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of these questions kind of piggyback off each other, but they're pointing at different things like with this one, it's like, what are you most proud of in the way that you give love or the one [SPEAKER_00]: And I would still say acts of service for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm very good at that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to really get an idea of what my friends would say about me as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I do know that I give that kind of love in a good way.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as far as quality time, I think I'm very good about that as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have been complimenting it on the fact that which is crazy to me, by the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I've been complimenting it on the fact that [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not always on my phone when I'm with a guy or when I'm trying to get to know them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I'm trying to get to know you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot focus on what's on this phone and what's in this phone is not nearly as interesting or attention grabbing as the man that is sitting in front of me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've always been like that and my mama raised me with some sins.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if I'm trying to get to know you, even if it's not romantically or whatever, if this, if the purpose of us being together in this moment is to spend time with one another and get to know each other for whatever reason, maybe I need to put my phone down that phone going be there when we finish this one hour meeting over the case may be so I think I give quality time and undivided attention.

[SPEAKER_00]: pretty well in addition to acts of service.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think I love all of these questions that we answered in this section because this part of the work is all about clarity because you can't attract what you aren't ready to hold, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: So the more you understand your needs and how you love the easier it becomes to spot the kind of connection that is actually a good fit for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: what kind of partner do I want to attract emotionally, mentally and spiritually?

[SPEAKER_00]: I really want a partner who is kind, I really want a partner who loves Jesus and is on a walk [SPEAKER_00]: I want to attract a partner who is emotionally intelligent, who is mentally stable, hey man, and who has the space to make me a priority in their life, not necessarily [SPEAKER_00]: getting to know me and prioritize is our relationship that we are building.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to partner who believes in the power of therapy and personal growth, personal development, someone who always asks the question of how can I continually be my best self, someone who loves enriching [SPEAKER_00]: someone who loves adventure, someone who is curious about the world around us, someone who knows or someone who wants to constantly learn new things.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's in a nutshell, the type of partner that I am hoping to attract.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now this next prompt I did it and I really urge you guys to do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The next one [SPEAKER_00]: I wrote mine down.

[SPEAKER_00]: I did mine in my morning pages for my morning pages yesterday.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess I'm gonna read it to y'all.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's short.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so nervous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here's my letter to my future husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dear, my future husband, I cannot wait to meet you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm busy preparing my heart to be accepting of you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd be lying if I said the weight has been easy for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Over the last year or so, I feel like a failure since I haven't found you yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: I keep asking myself if I'm doing something wrong because I thought I'd at least have an idea of who you are by now.

[SPEAKER_00]: One thing that is high on my to-do list is to pray for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I truly pray that life is being kind to you and giving you the space to blossom into the man that you dream of being and space to find me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I always think to myself, well, will he look like and the older I get, the less I focus on that, now don't get me wrong, I already know you fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: With a capital fine, but I truly hope you are will and you're happy and you are fulfilled and you are enriched and you are whole and God fearing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that your heart is open to receive me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Waiting on you, your future wife.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe I just read that to y'all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I urge you to take a second.

[SPEAKER_00]: It felt so weird writing that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I urge you to write your own to your future husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: What experiences do you want to share together?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think there are a lot of experiences in my life that I have been saving [SPEAKER_00]: And I have now moved into a space where I'm not going to save these experiences for my future husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can just do them again.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we can I can tell him about the time I did it alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can he can tell me about the time he did something alone or with, you know, his family or whatever the case may be advice versa.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to live in a space where there are things that are off limits because I think in the day we don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: what the future holds for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want to try to save a million things for what I get married because who knows when that will be who knows what obstacles we'll face during that time, who knows what my priorities will be when I find my future husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to experience life with my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to do all of the things that I do now, but with companionship.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to travel the world with my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to make memories with my family, with my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to make memories with his family.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to host [SPEAKER_00]: Um, get together.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to host holidays with my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to do pottery with my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to work.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want a garden with my husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to do the things that my husband loves.

[SPEAKER_00]: If my husband loves traveling to see his favorite football team play baby.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in there like swim where okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got the snacks.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anything that makes my husband happy, anything that he loves firmly, like I want to be a part of those things, whatever it may be.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the last question in this section is, what qualities make you feel seen and safe?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like what qualities in a man makes you feel seen and safe?

[SPEAKER_00]: I love when a man is observant.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love when a man listens and repeats to you what he has heard and download it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mean, if I say this guy's blue, he says, you just said this guy's blue.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he has heard, if I say, oh my gosh, I love how blue the sky is, and then he does something in line with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I know that you always talk about how much you love the color of the sky.

[SPEAKER_00]: I painted this picture for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, love and action being able to observe something that I say and then take it into his [SPEAKER_00]: own hands and reinterpret that into something to show that he listens, that he cares about the things that comes out of my mouth something else that makes me feel seen is a kind man with a gentle touch and a man that looks at me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I feel like you look into my soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know how people say that all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, I feel like you look and straight through me into my soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, someone who knows how to hold eye contact.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also, someone who knows how to hold space, even in situations where it may be something that you don't necessarily think is super important.

[SPEAKER_00]: something that you don't know much about, but you can see that it is important to me and you're able to hold space for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: That helps me feel seen.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think those are the big ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, I would like a big strong man, you know, because I feel safe because he's being strong and he can protect me.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a man that walks on the outside of the street, because I need to be walking on the inside.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a southern thing, because these men that I'm in date now here in LA, [SPEAKER_00]: They even doing that.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was this one guy when I was there was this firefighter that I was talking to a while ago, and he would literally because I I don't normally think about stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just be walking down a street, especially since I've been single for so long.

[SPEAKER_00]: But back when I talked to this firefighter, he would just like, Nudge me over to the side of like, why is this man pushing me?

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I realized, Girl, he trying to walk on the outside because he's actually a gentleman.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay, far man, push me to the side.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyways, yes, I love when a man is just genuinely excited to be a gentleman, helps me feel seeing and loved in whatever capacity he has to offer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the biggest thing about this section that I wanna say is dreaming ahead isn't about checking boxes or expecting perfection.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's about being clear on what you want and knowing your worth and keeping your eye on the prize and Kimmyr on the prize means every choice you make aligns with the love that you are trying to attract.

[SPEAKER_00]: You won't waste your time on the people [SPEAKER_00]: And when you imagine the love that you want and you put it on paper, you're planning sees for a relationship that honors your heart, reflector values, and draws in the right energy.

[SPEAKER_00]: All you gotta do is show up and be open to it when it decides to find you.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you can look at your past and say, I see what happened and I understand what it taught me, that is growth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not just the kind that feels good on paper, but the deep, quiet kind, that shifts the way you show it for yourself and for love.

[SPEAKER_00]: every lesson, every heartbreak, every misstep.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's all a part of clearing the space for what you actually deserve.

[SPEAKER_00]: And generally about love isn't about transbredictive future.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great way to get into setting yourself up to receive it with open eyes and an open heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we look at where we've been, honor where we are and dream about what's ahead, we remind ourselves that love isn't solely about finding the right person.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's also about being ready for them when they finally do a ride.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-oh y'all, you know what time it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is time for our final closing segment.

[SPEAKER_00]: And today's closing segment y'all is called Future Husband, Rapid Fire.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, y'all know Tyreby.

[SPEAKER_00]: She does the closing segment and I don't like girl, what you got up here for this?

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so we're gonna have a couple of questions and I'm going to have to answer rapid fire.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'll not be scared to answer a little bit of these, but you know what, I'm just, we just taken it there.

[SPEAKER_00]: We just taken it there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm being open and honest in this, so we just taken it there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now, y'all can answer with me either in your journals or you can answer out loud real quick as I say each one.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the first one is your dream date night.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, this is a dream day night that I've had for a long time, and I've actually told a couple of my friends this, I actually said this is how I want to be proposed to, but that's changed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to have dinner at like in underwater restaurant.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we can be underwater under all the lights and I want to get all cute.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want them to have like a string quartet playing over there, you know, and I just want to have a nice romantic evening with my me and my me and my me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, one song that will play it my wedding.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, hear me out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I've been seeing this on social media a lot, but people have been like taking songs from SpongeBob and they've been making them into the bride walking down our song.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they have best day ever, and there's a version of it where it's like, on piano, [SPEAKER_00]: I really think that has to play in my wedding.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even lying because it's so millennial coded and it's so me, I'm always making SpongeBob references.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just gotta wait for my husband like if he didn't watch SpongeBob run up, then I'll have to change it up.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if he watched SpongeBob run up, oh baby, that's gonna be the song I walked down to down the aisle with.

[SPEAKER_00]: The best day ever, it's the best day ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: On piano, oh baby, that's gonna be lit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and then the last one is the one chore that my future husband better not mind doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: That me and better not mind cleaning the bathroom.

[SPEAKER_00]: One good thing that I will say about the guy that I was talking to, what I first moved out to LA, he had no problem cleaning the bathroom.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was his Sunday ritual.

[SPEAKER_00]: Baby cleaning the bathroom because Tyra.

[SPEAKER_00]: don't like cleaning bathrooms.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is, y'all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just cannot make myself clean bathroom.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, obviously, I do if I have to clean the bathroom, but I'm not going to lie.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got a house keeper right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she's going to be here on Thursday to clean that bathroom.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I obviously keep it like I spot cleaning things.

[SPEAKER_00]: But for some reason cleaning the bathroom just makes my skin crawl.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I'm scratching now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: It just makes my skin crawl.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he better be okay with cleaning the bathroom.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if he's not okay with cleaning the bathroom, then we just go have a housekeeper.

[SPEAKER_00]: They just gonna clean the bathroom and that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know how to make sure that I can afford the things that I feel like I need that are actually just once that I need.

[SPEAKER_00]: if you picking up what I'm putting down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you guys, that is all that I have for y'all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really hope you enjoyed this episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really hope that you truly take this time to at least think about these general prompts that I have given you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And even if you are in relationship, these can also help you gain clarity in the relationship that you are currently in.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, we have an e-journal that is linked down below in the show notes.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you do want to just have all of this in one place, somewhere that you can refer back to, go ahead and download it, print it out, staple it in the corner, baby, and write to your hearts content.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also get a journal again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here are my two journals that I absolutely love.

[SPEAKER_00]: and they help to keep me sane when I'm not, you know, in a therapy session.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you guys enjoyed this episode, please share it with someone who can benefit from it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to thank you guys so much for watching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and by weekly we have our pep talk Wednesdays that are just a short little snippet amid we pick me up so turn your notifications on so you can get the alerts when those go live and if you are listening on your favorite listening platform make sure that you rate the podcast make sure that you are following the podcast and leave us a review because you are reviews they really touch my heart they truly do I want to thank each and every one of y'all for being here [SPEAKER_00]: If you're in a boat like me, you're 30s now, and you're like, God, where is my boss?

[SPEAKER_00]: You're not alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of us are in this boat, and it is our job to make the most out of our time being single, and making sure that we are setting our heart up to be open, to receive the man that God has for us, and we are reflecting on all of the things that we could have done better in our last relationships, [SPEAKER_00]: We're reflecting on those things because nobody is perfect.

[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta work it again and again to like get it right.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was Hannah Montana if you out didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you out in catch that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But seriously y'all, there are things in my past relationships that I'm like, I really could have done better in that regard.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really could have been a better partner in this heart of the relationship.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it is my job and my duty to my future husband to make sure that I am healed.

[SPEAKER_00]: to make sure that I have tools in place to make sure that I am able to give 100% in the relationship that I am having an open heart and making space for him the same way that I hope he makes space for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: So with that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and get about it here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys so much for listening.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is affirmations for Black girls.

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