LOVE... LOVE... LOVE... Will I Ever Find Mine?

by Sandra Brown, MA

I don't know... can you:

~Stop focusing on him?

~ Be willing to manage your intrusive thoughts of him?

~ Redirect your obsessions from him to your own self care?

~ Create a full life so you aren't lonely?

~ Build a foundation of support that doesn't include 'having to be' in a relationship?

~ Learn to find fulfillment in activities that don't only include intimate relationships?

~ Acknowledge & Treat your symptoms of anxiety, depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

~ Heal your sexuality?

~ Embrace spirituality?

~ Learn to be attracted to guys who aren't proverbial bad boys?

~ Dig deeply to see what all your relationships have in common so you don't repeat the pattern?

~ Memorize what pathology is and stop looking for loopholes?

~ Take one year or maybe even two years OFF from dating to nurture all those places in you that are wounded and broken?

~ Will you take time to learn what your trait proclivities are (read 'Women Who Love Psychopaths') so you know how to safe guard yourself in the next relationship?

~ Seriously UNDERSTAND how your traits and his traits are a magnet to each other?

~ Realize YOU ARE ENOUGH FOR YOU! If another relationship DOESN'T come along... you will survive. If you're really determined, you'll even THRIVE.

~ Get grounded -- sink your feet into the earth of your soul and declare you'll never be uprooted again... no matter what -- you're grounded in you and reality -- not fantasy.

~ Be willing to challenge old belief systems, old assumptions, old patterns, old references.

~ Most of all...can you LOVE yourself?

Valentines Day is coming... you've fallen in love with all sorts of things and people... you've fallen in love with illusions, with dreams, hopes, and pathology.

It's time to fall in love with you!

I know who you are... you know why? Because after all that research we know EXACTLY who you are -- you deeply attach and love, you are loving to the 9th degree, loyal, trusting, sensitive, and very invested in relationship happiness. You're a TERRIFIC woman that any NORMAL man would be blessed to have.

No one is alone today on Valentines Day. We stand hand in hand, bridging the gap for each other -- connected and bonded by a sorority of shared experiences, pain, and yet hope. If you need a hug for Valentines Day, there are plenty of cyber hugs floating through here.

Learn to love you. Nothing happens and no one else does until you do. Give to the world that part of yourself that is so rich and deep. There are lots of ways to be loved -- be loved by giving back, by reaching others. Valentines Day is for lovers.

Be the lover of your own soul. We celebrate that with you...

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