I am so grateful for the clarity and acceptance I’ve found in the last year regarding what connection means to me. I’ve let go of the pressures to be what everyone else wants and needs at my own expense.

I am okay with knowing that sometimes these choices mean I have to be okay knowing I am letting someone else down, and, that is not my disappointment to hold. I have the right to make the choices in my life that allow me to thrive and to show up fully in all I do. Again, I can’t do and be it all and I can no longer afford to lose myself in the chase to trying to.

Your turn. Are there expectations and wants you have internalized from others about who you have to be and how you have to show up for a relationship to be “good”, “meaningful” or “worthy”?

How is that affecting you in your chase to keep up with them? What can you do to release yourself from them and begin to pivot into creating relationships founded on BOTH what you and others need and be okay if sometimes that means relationships have to change or end?