As of lately I have been making it my mission to clean house. Not literally “cleaning my house”…but removing people and situations that no longer bring me value. For so long I had grown accustomed to or shall I say addicted to certain situations and people.

One situation in particular was a romantic relationship that I was insistent on making it work. I swear…love is the strongest drug ever. Being addicted to love or to a certain person made me blind to all of the red flags. When I was high off love nobody could tell me nothing. My desperate need to feel loved would randomly come to a halt when lies, disappearing acts, cheating, and lack of communication ruined the relationship.

As I started to wake up…better yet come down from my “love” high, I realized that the relationship was just not meant to work. I truly wanted the relationship to work and did everything I could to maintain the relationship. But, the more I tried the more the person I loved did everything they could to ruin the relationship.

It’s simple! You can’t love someone that is not able to receive love. Sadly, most people grow up not learning how to love. And those people that grow up not knowing how to love oftentimes miss the opportunity of having a non-toxic relationship in their adult life. Broken people reflect broken behavior, and although a person can say they love you their actions have to show it.

When you’re dealing with a broken person they can cause you to question everything about yourself as they chip away at your self-esteem. However if you know you’re worth, broken people teach you a lesson and prepare you for something better.

The best thing to do when it comes to loving a broken person is to let them go, because the inner battle their fighting is far bigger than what you can fix. No relationship is worth loving another person more than yourself. It took me a while to learn and acknowledge the truth about love, but now I finally get the message I was intended to learn after all these years.

Until next time…

-Peach