There was a time in my younger years that I honestly believed that love would be enough to make a relationship work. #naive So when the red flags started appearing in my relationships, I ignored them because I honestly believed that love would overcome any issue. 🚩 I was wrong: love isn’t enough. 🥺 Especially when you’re in love with someone who isn’t right for you. Who can’t communicate and isn’t willing to work on themselves. Who doesn’t love…
“Relationships take work.” Well yep, that’s true, but there IS a difference between two people working on a healthy relationship and people disguising emotional damage as effort. The latter leads to slowly becoming a shell of yourself. 🐚 All relationships have challenges. Hard conversations, disagreements and growing pains are normal. But if you constantly feel anxious, confused, or like you’re the only one trying to fix things, that’s not “just a rough patch.” That’s a red flag. 🚩 …
✨ 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…
I’ve always loved a good vision board but for a few years I was creating them as a collage for my phone and laptop. In January my friend Kirsty ran a vision boarding event where a bunch of us got together to create what we wanted for 2025 and map it out with beautiful vision boards. 🌅 Back in January I knew we’d be wanting to buy a house later in the year but it felt like a bit…
We have a tendency to put rose coloured glasses on many things in life – including the past. 🌹👓 It’s easy to look back on past situations that weren’t good for us and only focus on the good things about them. Looking back at the crazy social life you had in your younger years and remembering all the fun times – forgetting how it made you unreliable at work because of sick days, abusing your body through drugs and…
It was November 2018. I woke up on the floor after sleeping in a room in my house that I used as my office, instead of sleeping in my bedroom, where he was sleeping. I felt scared, afraid to leave the room and confront the situation ahead of me, treading on eggshells as always and feeling like a shell of my former self. 🐚 It wasn’t unusual to be met with passive aggressiveness, being completely ignored…