Do you have love in your life? if so, tell us about it, please!

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I met my husband, got engaged in 6 months and married within a year. I felt like God told me on the second date that I would marry him. It has been 19 years!

I think this past weekend is when the "in sickness and health" part really came into play. He saw me at my "mentally" worst. He held me. He really listened. He still doesn't understand the ptsd, but things got to a point that I couldn't hide the pain and he was there.

 

[Jo Jo]

Do You Have Love In Your Life? If so, tell us about it, please!

It could be from a parent, a sibli...

I worked really hard (from the age or 23 until about 33) at the practice of loving myself. After that 10 year period, I had a breakthrough and the concept of self love seemed to make perfect sense. What I didn't realize is that just because you get it doesn't mean the practice and hard work is over. I so desperately wanted to scream what I had discovered from the rooftops so that others like me could share the joy of self love.
Since screaming from the rooftops isn't really an option, I did the the one thing I knew best...I jumped into one abusive relationship after another. Everytime I felt that love slipping away, I would leave and regroup. Sometimes I went back to the same bad relationship, sometimes I just fell into a new one.
What I've learned at now 38 is this, love, in any shape or form takes time and patients. Even self love. The more effort and dedication you put towards loving you, the more people who've done their own work will honor, respect and love you as well. The choices I've made in my love journey taught me to love another as I learned to love myself but that doesn't mean the person you choose even understands that. At times I think we are so desperate to also love our inner child that it can be easy to love our reflection in another. In my final thoughts on the topic, I think we should all be more proud and less ashamed if we are the only ones in our life that truly love us. It is rare and daily struggle most will ever achieve.

 

[Butterflies2023]

I have love from family They know my brother abused me and know about parent abuse and neglect. I have their love as best they know how to show it. Which is kind of sad. But we all shared the same parents so I guess we all try but certainly fall short. The one friend is so type A and does the best she can. I have the Love from our Lord....but I recently discovered the most unique from my grandchild. Now that's an awesome deliciously innocent huggable love

 

[Changing4Best]

I have heard so may stories about grandchildren and how their love is the most precious. I was not fortunate enough to have children, although I am told that all 7 of my miscarried ones will be in Heaven when I get there. In the meantime, I am a bit jealous! However, one day it occurred to me that my children may have adopted children that the Lord brought to Heaven before their time, and so I may indeed have grandchildren too! I am so excited by that thought, I cannot wait!!!

 

[mumstheword]

I am so very blessed to have given birth to 7 amazing people. The struggles and what I have endured for them is so huge, I am so spent from doing my very best for them. But they are ok! Miraculously, I think (and pray) that they won't have suffered anywhere what I have. I almost can't l believe I did it, and under such extreme conditions; I am not capable of going into what that entailed here, but rest assured, it was almost unbelievable.

I always had faith and draw on that belief and prayed and gave myself up; "Thy will not my will" , but it is such a harrowing, heart-wrenching thing to be a parent and to love and want to protect these people given into our care!

My heart is so touched and changed and made so raw by this (and these) experience(s).

I am so truly heartfelt feeling for you, with the experience and pain of your losses SheilaKathy!

Recently I went through losing babies in utero but I can't say that it would touch what you went through with your losses as I had already experienced who I was blessed to bring forth.

I am so so humbled by it and by the losses.
They, the earthside children and the Angel babies have, and continue to shape who I am.