Moana Hope
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's what it can do to you.
And even with relationships, I think even with the relationships that I've been in, I think that I'm not somebody that goes, well, I've had this terrible upbringing, so that's the reason why I'm a prick and I'm doing these things.
But I feel like I've learned so much about myself and the way I love that in past relationships I would get into, I'd go, as long as you love me,
We're good.
Instead of having healthy boundaries, instead of saying what I want in a relationship, it was just love because I didn't have it as a kid.
That's all I wanted.
And so I feel like that's been a big reason why I haven't been the best partner.
So it's about also unlearning absolutely everything I've learned about loving, about parenting, about being a sister, about being a daughter, and just really focusing on me and what it means to me to love someone or to love a child or to be the best mother.
Me and my son, we play all the time.
Like we will wrestle and we'll chase each other and do jokes.
And like two days ago, he was being a little cheeky bugger and he goes, Mo, come here.
I was like, what did you say, sir?
What did you say, sir?
He goes, come here, Mo.
And so I had like slippers on.
So I picked up the slipper and made it look like I was going to throw it.
And he laughed at me.
And in that moment, I thought to myself β
If I was a kid, when I was a kid, somebody picks something up, throw it at me, you run.
And then I thought, he's not blessed.