Some of us even earned the full loyalty card. 🙋♀️ You know the one… the relationship that looks cute on Instagram but feels like slow emotional death in real life. The one where you convince yourself “he’s just misunderstood,” while your gut’s in the corner quietly sobbing into a bottle of wine. 🍷 If you’ve ever wondered how to build your own red flag starter pack, here’s the foolproof 5-step formula I perfected back in my toxic relationship era.…
✨ If you’ve ever doubted if it’s really abuse – this one’s for you. For years, I believed every one of these myths. I justified, explained away, and sugar-coated behaviours that were slowly destroying my self-worth – all because I thought that’s what love looked like. It’s time to call bullshit on the lies that keep so many women stuck in painful, confusing, toxic relationships. Let’s bust a few myths, shall we? 👇 ❤️ MYTH #1: “It’s not abuse…
There’s a moment (and if you’ve been there, you’ll know exactly what I mean) where you realise you’ve been shrinking yourself just to keep the peace. ✌️ You’ve dimmed your light, silenced your voice, and convinced yourself it’s love. You’ve made yourself smaller so they wouldn’t feel threatened. You’ve swallowed your truth so you didn’t have to deal with another argument. And somewhere along the way, you disappeared. 🫥 Now you’re a shell of yourself. 🐚 You catch yourself…
Ever feel like you’ve read all the self-help books, journalled until you got RSI, and sat through therapy sessions nodding along… but still feel like you’re dealing with the same old shit? 💩 Yeah. You’re not the only one, legend. That’s because there are some sneaky AF emotional patterns that may be keeping you stuck. 😣 They’re subtle, quiet, and disguised as “normal” – but they’ll keep you spinning in circles until you drag them into the light. Here…
My first properly serious relationship was a biggie that affected me for a very long time afterwards. We got together when I was 17; we’d worked together at a gym for a few years by then. I was pretty young and naive and totally in love. 😍 I’d hear my mates bang on about how untrustworthy guys were, and I’d be all “not my man, I totally trust him, he’s a terrible liar so I’d know if he was…
Back in the world of Government jobs, you’d often hear the term being thrown around; “work smarter, not harder”. I always found this funny given we were all slogging our guts out under a massive workload and this seemed to be a way to make us more “productive” – so we could essentially get even more sht done in our day. I found it even funnier when they set up yet another working party to figure out how to…