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Alba was tired of looking for the one.
Some nights she wondered
if she was even interested in love
or just reacting to the voices
of her friends and family
whispering that
being single
was failure.
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When you see a woman glowing, looking softer and lighter, and walking with her head held higher, trust that what you’re witnessing is the aftermath of resilience—a woman reclaiming her peace after a difficult chapter.
Celebrate her.
Support her.
Encourage her.
Alex Ellesubstack.comI went to a networking event with former colleagues and current friends a month after leaving my job and two months after ending a long term relationship. I had move into my new, own apartment that week. Just beginning my new chapter after closing massive ones.
Everyone I hugged told me I was glowing and looking a certain kind of radiant. I hid and joked it was a new concealer, but to be honest, I felt it too. I felt lighter and returning to a version of myself I forgot existed.
This was also a reminder to myself to tell a woman when she’s shining. Hearing it means so much when you’re feeling it.
Date People That Like You
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“Date people that like you” is more of a reminder to myself now to leave. It’s clear when someone feels like I’m a nuisance rather than a compliment to their story and vice versa. When it’s obvious someone is looking for completely different traits than you have, and your personality is legit not something they can tolerate, it’s okay to walk away.
Believe yourself, believe them, and don’t hold on to meet any societal “ride or die” hogwash. How about I live, for me, until I meet someone who simply adores me and wants to live with me too? What if you could have a long, beautiful life instead of a tumultuous one, cut short by a relationship full of warning signs? Tolerating dislike, even for a moment, as a woman, is a little too close to flirting with the idea of death.
Sometimes, people aren’t rejecting you. They’re rejecting the version of themselves they’d have to be in order to love you the way you deserve.
— times when the light hit just right & you knew you were already living in a memory.
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instagram.comIf we’re riffing, I swear hours could go by!!! But if we don’t have riff chemistry, every second is painful lowkey lol
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closure is what you make of it
instagram.comgoodbyes can be beautiful if we let them