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Love Yourself a Little More Than Everyone and Everything
To all women.
Love yourself a little more than your partner.
Accept that you can’t be everything for him. You can’t be as sexy as the women in the porn he watches (yes, he watches porn), and cook as good as his mom does. You can’t be as fun as his friends and as supportive as his brother.
There’ll always be things you’re jealous of, if just a little. If not of the waitress in his favorite bar, then of his job, of his phone, of his “guys”.
That’s okay.
When you love yourself a little more than your partner, you can shrug these things off and focus on giving him the best version of you — and I hope he deserves it!
Love yourself a little more than your children.
Man, that’s almost impossible, but you must try.
If you can’t, then love yourself at least as much as you love your children. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself time to learn things. Ask for help when you fall. Take some time to have fun. To nap. To hang out with friends.
Whatever they deserve, you deserve.
Love yourself a little more than your parents.
A little more than your friends.