I Spent Years Chasing Love Until I Finally Chose Myself
“The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none.” ~Unknown For most of my life, I lived with a quiet ache, a longing I couldn’t quite name but always felt.
I wanted to be chosen. Not just liked or tolerated, but fully seen, wanted, and loved. That longing shaped so many of my choices.
I over-gave in relationships, staying in situations far longer than I should have, and shrank myself to be accepted. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was trying to fill an emptiness that had started years before, an emptiness born in silence and absence, in words left unsaid and emotions left unacknowledged.
You see, I grew up in a household that looked stable from the outside when, in reality, the opposite was the case. My father was a brilliant and accomplished professor but emotionally unreachable.
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