Princess Pretty Average

PPA was a long time coming, decades in fact.

Some time ago, my husband had said something devastatingly hurtful to me and, years later, I was still having a hard time processing it.

So, I began writing it down, all of it, what he said, how I felt about his words, him, and eventually myself. I came to the conclusion that what he said and why didn’t matter. What mattered was why I allowed this treatment and what this revealed about me: that I did not love myself.

Curious, I googled his words and found tens of hundreds of others that had experienced something similar. Reading about others’ confusion and pain at being hurt this way by someone they loved compelled me to share my experience in the hopes of helping somehow.

And that’s when I decided to start this blog.

My goal was to write a post every Friday for one year.

And on this journey, I began to heal. I learned that knowing your value allows you to recognize when you are being devalued, dismissed, disrespected, and taken for granted. Learning to love yourself is the only way to begin healing.

That year has come and gone, just this past August 2023.

The next section: The Journey Continues is my insights on being an individual within my marriage. Which, I thought I had to abandon in order to become one with my husband. Not so.

My wish for my readers is to be inspired to bestow kindness, compassion, patience, and love…to themselves.

Self-love runneth over.