Brianna Gomez

They do not truly love you if they do not understand moments where you have to put yourself first.

Or they do not truly love you if they immediately resent you or punish you for not being able to show up at your very best one day out of the week.

If you slip up one time...

A person who really loves you is not going to just let you go.

And I know you may feel like, yeah, exactly.

That's why I don't want to slip up this one time because I don't want them to let me go.

But the truth is...

You have to learn where you are going to draw the line.

When you are going to say, you know what?

If this love is so conditional, if this love is so unstable that if I don't do one thing right, it's over and they leave me and suddenly I'm meaningless.

Do you even want that love anyway?

And this might go with your relationships, right?

You get into one fight and suddenly the whole thing is over.

You do one thing wrong.

You don't show up in one specific picky way.

Suddenly, you are worthless.

Suddenly, you aren't the one anymore.

Number one, that is such a toxic cycle, but I know what it feels like.

To feel like your worth is tethered to receiving love.

Maybe it's from one specific person, or maybe it's from a bunch of people in your life.