Loving yourself isn’t enough and this is why

Why loving yourself isn’t enough

MentalDessert
3 min readJan 28, 2023
Photo by Joshua Humpfer on Unsplash

I had everything I wanted except making enough in my career to help out with the love I had. I had friends across the world and made so many new friends, a career that was always my passion, and was branching out into a new field. I was in therapy and doing all I could to better myself, communicate more efficiently, realize my triggers and push past what trauma has done to me.

When you have it all and it still falls apart

It seems like when you have everything something will fall apart. Generally it’s my health, hypothyroidism, my heart condition, or something new they found out about me. Instead, it was the person who was the love of my life leaving me.

I wasn’t prepared even if there was a part of me knowing the patterns. How they leave the relationship emotionally before physically. That distance I felt that was growing. And so I buckled down and made sure to open up more time to spend with my person in an effort to bridge the gap.

The gap was already a gorge. Instead of the spiral of I’ll never be loved and this is what broken is consuming me I did something else. I didn’t inherently blame myself and tell myself that I am an unlovable being. Because the truth was I never loved myself as much as I did in this…

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MentalDessert

I'm unapologetically me with a hard edged view of life. I love to travel and have crazy amounts of fun spaced between quiet moments.