02/23/2024
Sometimes it is hard to believe this to be true.
If you weren’t loved enough from a very young age, this is even harder to comprehend and truly believe to the core of your being. But I promise you, it is true. When people like to joke “didn’t your mom hug you enough as a kid” it isn’t funny. Because the fallout can be, knowing you deserved more, knowing you deserve or deserved apologies, trying to be “enough” to be “loved enough”, but always falling short. But, it won’t ever be so long as you stay in that place. It cannot be about enough for another, or your mother.
Maybe this is about romantic relationships for you, (possibly as a result of your upbringing says the social worker in me… but it can just occur later in life maybe after some trauma) Either way, you keep showing up in relationships where you are not loved enough, because they are familiar, and you think this time, this time you will be enough to be loved enough so you try harder and harder…. But…..you won’t, because you are trying to be that for someone else other, than yourself.
The best part is, this can be learned. You can learn to do this!
Wherever it began… it ends with you, you can indeed find people who will love you enough. 💞
~Laura
