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Valentine’s Day can be one of the loneliest days of the year for many. Not because they are single, but because they feel trapped.
Trapped in relationships that don’t serve them.
Trapped in cycles of toxicity.
Trapped in situations where love is more about fear than safety.
Ignoring the Red Flags for the Sake of Love
How many people will ignore their gut instincts, dismiss the warnings, and silence their pain just to avoid spending Valentines Day alone? The fear of being single, of being the one without a romantic dinner reservation, can push people to stay in relationships that erode their well-being.
Some will smile as they receive flowers from the very hands that bruised them the night before.
Some will be coerced into sex because of Valentine’s Day, and that’s what couples do.
Some will get into arguments fueled by unmet expectations, comparing their relationship to picture-perfect social media posts.
Behind the curated Instagram captions and candlelit dinners, there are stories of suffering, of people performing happiness to meet an external standard of what love should look like.
What If This Year Was Different?
What if this Valentines Day, you made a different choice?
What if instead of sacrificing yourself for the illusion of love, you chose to love yourself fiercely, unapologetically, and fully?
What if you committed to:
Listening to your gut when it tells you something isn’t right.
Setting boundaries with people who drain you instead of nourish you.
Walking away from relationships that thrive on control, manipulation, or violence.
Choosing yourself over the pressure to have someone's for the sake of appearances.
This Valentines Day, don’t abandon yourself for the comfort of temporary companionship. Love yourself enough to wait for the kind of love that is kind, patient, and safe.
Love yourself enough to walk away.
Love yourself enough to know that being alone is not the same as being unloved.
This year, let the flowers you receive be from you to you.
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