"This Love is Ours"
Much of my high school, college, and young adulthood was spent with the wrong kind of guy. You know what I mean, the boys who crazy excite you but are so terribly wrong for you. Every broken-hearted Taylor Swift song was exactly how I felt from being a teenager to the age of 24. Truly, it is sad that I spent so much time chasing after these kinds of relationships - shallow, superficial, ill-intentioned, toxic. Everything that I didn’t want in a husband, I spent majority of these years pursuing. What I’ve found in my conversations with most women of all ages is this: it seems we’ve all settled for these relationships at one point in time. You might not fall in this category, and if you haven’t, praise the Lord! Seriously. Sometimes I think we long for someone so badly, we forget what we are worth and what we deserve. I still see and work with these women on a daily basis – the ones who are in toxic relationships. Relationships that consume them, control them, make them feel les...