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Hey, what's up y'all?
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It's your girl Papi Brit.
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Welcome to Platicando con Papi.
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If it's your first time here, then welcome.
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Thank you so much for making time and space for me.
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Before we get started, make sure to like, make sure that you're subscribed and show some love.
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I have decided that I'm going to be posting on Saturdays.
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I know it's not the best day to post, which I don't really care.
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I have Fridays off, and it just works out perfectly that I can just dedicate my Friday nights to doing this and then and have them ready to go on Saturday mornings.
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So that's the plan moving forward, and yeah, we're officially back.
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I made it a point to make sure that if there was one thing I did today was to record this podcast because I'm holding myself to that.
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Today I decided I'm gonna talk a little bit about relationships because one of the main like quote unquote hate comments or annoying comments that I would get all the time when I was doing my podcast consistently was about how I'm pushing 30.
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And well, I am low-key.
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I'm 28, about to be 29 in December, so pushing 30, but like also that I don't think that's a bad thing.
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One of the main things that they would say is that I was pushing 30, that after 30, no one's gonna want me, and that I needed to like hurry up and find someone because yeah, I wasn't gonna be able to find anyone, you maybe like that.
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And like now that I think about it, after being like single for five years, and now I'm at a point where I literally like I don't even talk to anyone, I have no romantic interest, nothing.
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And I've decided like I literally have no interest in dating people right now.
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This whole thing about being 30 and like that your life is over or that you need to settle down is such a stupid, outdated idea, and just the fact that so many people think that being in a relationship is the ultimate marker of success in your life, and for me that's never been the case.
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So, well, actually, let's not lie, there was a point actually in my life where I did care about dating and did want to find the love of my life and whatever.
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Like, I I'm a lover girl at heart, and so I did want to find someone to spend my life with, and I wanted like that fairy tale relationship and ending, which I and the relationships I've been in have not gotten.
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And so I actually figured I would start with that because I now recognize and know, and like kind of have always been like I'm a self-aware person, but like I played a huge role into like the shitty relationships I ended up in because I chose these people ultimately.
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Like, I had a tendency to choose people that did not choose me.
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I wanted to like chase after people and like prove myself to them and like love them into loving me, and they would show me exactly who they were.
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But I was the type of person that thought I could fix people, I saw their potential, just overly invested myself when I would get rejected or when I would get cheated on.
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I felt like it was something that had to do with me, and like I have learned that it literally has nothing to do with you, but yeah, like I I recognized that the people I was choosing were not the best people, so I I did play a role in my own suffering, and that had to do a lot with like my own self-worth and just wanting to be loved and feel loved, and just the way I grew up and the relationships I saw growing up.
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I thought love was giving people a million chances and loving them for their potential and loving them for the good sides that they would show you and like avoiding all of the bad.
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I do need to give myself some grace because you know, all along, like I realized that I was looking for love that I was missing within myself.
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And so if anything, I just want to give myself like younger me a hug and tell her that it was never hurt.
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If anything, like she was more than enough, oftentimes way more than those men deserved.
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So it's fine, we've grown.
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But yeah, like I have not had the best luck in relationships.
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If people know, if you know, you know, because I never shut up about them.
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But like I've been cheated on really badly.
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My exes have had babies on me.
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One of my exes somehow turned out to be gay.
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I have not had like the best luck in love.
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I'm one of those people that when I care about someone, I'm all in.
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I just again saw people for their potential, and I just wanted to be like, you know, it's not about the money.
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Like, you know, we can, you know, grow together, whatever.
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And it's just like I'm not, I'm at a point where I'm not here to build a man.
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I am not here to teach a man how to be a man, I'm not here to teach a man how to be a normal, functioning human being.
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I'm not here to be a man's mom.
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I just went after people that didn't offer me anything, basically.
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I would just see the shittiest people and be basically like, I can fix you.
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And you know, I realized it's not my job nor my place to try to fix anyone, and ultimately, like, you can't fix people.
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People are gonna be who they are now that I've gotten older and I see like the relationships around me.
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You like end up realizing that a lot of people just end up settling, and it's really sad to see that a lot of people would rather put up with a shitty partner, just not being content in order to just have a relationship.
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And I know a lot of people do it also for their children.
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I'm not here to judge, especially if I'm not in that situation.
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Can no longer imagine myself being in a situation where I'm just like survival mode, unhappy, on alert, always like, what are they doing?
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I don't believe in checking phones, I don't believe in all of that toxic shit.
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I don't believe in abusing each other, hitting each other, even yelling.
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Like, I don't think that's what love is and what it should be.
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I would rather just be alone than have that.
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Even if I do have children with them, and I know like it's hard, you know.
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I'm speaking from a place of privilege, and obviously I know that everyone's situation is completely different, but also that's also why I refuse to have children.
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Like, I refuse to get pregnant by someone that is not my husband, and I know that things can happen after, but like at least they have some type of commitment to you, you know.
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I just don't see myself in a place anymore where I would tolerate that kind of behavior or that kind of disrespect, and like I did before, like a lot.
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I would get a lot of hate girly texts, and I would be manipulated also, especially my last ex.
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Um, he was a fucking narcissist, okay?
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Again, gotta give myself grace, but hold myself accountable.
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I found myself going back, and like I know a lot of people have been here too.
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You just think about the good moments, the moments where they show you that they do have a heart, that they can be good people.
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You just kind of hold on to that and hope that one day they can grow into being that person.
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I know what I want and I know what I don't want.
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Like, I have been through a lot of again shitty things, and so I just know that if it's not what I want, then I'm I'd rather be alone.
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I'm content with my life, I'm at peace.
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I don't feel like I'm on survival mode anymore.
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I take care of myself, I work, I'm smart, I'm pretty, I'm a good I know I have a good heart, I'm family-oriented, like I know I'm a good person, I have a good life, and so I don't want to go back to a point where I am questioning myself or making myself feel small or feel like a bad person, or just like allowing people to dim my light or tell me what to do because I feel like that's one thing that happens a lot in the people I end up dating.
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They see me, they see how I dress, they see how I express myself, they see that I'm a very like outgoing person.
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I know a lot of people, and at first they're cool with it, and then once we start actually dating, they start attacking those same things and expect me to change.
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And I'm one of those people I'm not going to change who I am.
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I've been in relationships in the past where I did and I completely lost myself and overextended myself and received nothing in return.
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I ended up getting cheated on, I ended up getting dogged.
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Like I ended up looking fucking stupid for people that I would have like bent over backwards for and that I did bend over backwards for.
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I was literally the definition of a fucking ride or die, and I thought that was like a symbol of pride that I should have had.
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Now I don't see that uh like me overextending myself as a symbol of pride.
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I want a relationship where we're both mutually pouring into each other.
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And again, if it's not making my life better, if it's not improving my life, then I genuinely just don't need it, don't want it.
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I am okay with never having children.
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You know, if I do get blessed with them, I would be more than happy to have children, but I'm only gonna have them with a person that actually wants to be a parent and that will actually be accordingly and take care of me because otherwise I'm good.
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You know, there's so many women that I admire that are like older women and that never got married, and they're the happiest women.
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They are healthy, thriving, successful, traveling, and that doesn't seem like a bad life to me at all.
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I have so many other beings that I can pour my love into.
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I'm surrounded by so much love and like people that I love, and so it's not like I would end up alone.
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I just would find different things to love and different things that love me.
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I just don't think that a relationship is the ultimate marker of success.
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I don't think that because someone is married or because they're in a relationship, they're more successful or even more happy.
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I see it firsthand all the time.
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Some people in relationships are fucking miserable.
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As I move forward, I'm not looking for love.
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I genuine believer that if it's meant for me, I'm going to find it.
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My plan is to just continue on with my life, my plans, and if God has it in the cards for me to fall in love and have a family and do whatever, that person will find me and we will meet each other where we're at and like build together.
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But I no longer care to seek out people that don't care for me.
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I am not going to chase after people, I no longer just see people for their potential.
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And as soon as I see a red flag, I'm like, okay, yeah, this isn't for me.
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For me in the past, I feel like I really did struggle with that.
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And when things didn't work out with people, or when I got rejected or put down or whatever by someone, I genuinely thought it was something that had to do with me.
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And now that I look back on it, like every single person that fumbled me or that did me dirty or mistreated me or whatever, God has shown me exactly why it didn't work out with them and what he was protecting me from.
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There's so many people in my past.
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For example, my exes have always told me they recognize what they had after the fact, and that's what happens with me so often is that I overpour and I overgive and I over love and overly invest myself, and people just don't value it.
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I've had conversations with people that fumbled me in the past, and they've always told me they just didn't recognize what they had.
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I have people that it could have been something, but they weren't ready for a relationship.
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Now coming around being like, Oh, you were you're like everything, you're the one that I want.
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We should be together.
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That does nothing for me.
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It is not, it doesn't feel good when people treated me so shitty when I was invested in them and now want to come back.
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They see that the grass wasn't fucking greener on the other side.
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That's one thing that helped me get over getting cheated on and has allowed me to just detach is learning that it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with that person.
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Most of the time, those people have their own shit going on, their own battles, and it you just end up being a casualty because of it.
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For example, my fucking ex like had nothing to do with me.
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He was just fucking DL, you know.
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Now when things don't work out, I don't see it as a loss for me.
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I'm not sitting there like, why didn't they want me?
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I just see it as like, okay, they just fumbled something fucking great.
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They're fucking stupid.
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I know for a fucking fact they're going to come back around and think that they're going to get the same me and that they're going to get the same loving and caring and nice person that they received at first.
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But no, once you do me dirty, I just can't see you the same again.
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You will never get that side of me ever again.
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You will not get that me twice.
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And so these people come back around thinking shit's sweet, and it's really not.
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If anything, they should be grateful that I don't hate them.
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Would also always get laughed at because they would say that like I go out of, like, I would go out of my way for these men.
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Now I just don't go out of my way for men.
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Even to this day, I don't regret it because I am the love that I give.
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I know that that love will be returned to me in other ways, and God always does return it to me in other ways, and I know that the love that I give will never be for granted.
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I feel like I have so much love to give, and I'm never going to change my heart or start being a shitty person or being toxic back or whatever, like getting out of character just to get my lick back.
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If it's getting me out of character, if it's making me anxious, if it's making me question myself, then it's probably not for me.
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And I've just learned to just kind of let those things go, prioritize my peace, my happiness.
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I'll be damned if I let another man dim my light or make me feel small or question my word.
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Now I'm just genuinely like focusing my time and my energy on things that love me and make me feel loved back and that I can pour into, but that they also pour back into me.
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Now I know that I am the price and will continue to be the price.
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I'm not going to let those shitty experiences change my heart.
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But yeah, this is also a gentle reminder that if it's getting you out of your character, making you be someone that you're not, alienating you from the people that you love, making you question your worth, then it's probably not for you.
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That is not what love is supposed to feel like.
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Love is supposed to feel safe, love is supposed to feel good, love is supposed to calm your nervous system.
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And so if it's not doing that for you, then it's probably not for you.
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And it's better for you to pour that love into yourself, invest into yourself, spend that time with yourself, spend that time pouring love into yourself and into things that make you feel good, that make you feel better, and spending time with people that make you feel good and make you feel better and that genuinely love you because love comes in so many different forms, and you can find it in literally any and everything in life.
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So it's important to remind yourself that relationships are not the end all be all, and even when you are a lover girl or someone that loves way too hard, you can invest that love into other people, into people that are less fortunate, into complimenting people that you see on the street or being kind to someone and helping them out, leaving a nice comment and hyping someone up, whatever it is, you can continue to give love, and the universe will always give it back to you tenfold.
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When you move with good intentions and you have a good heart, world will return it to you.
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So it's never your loss.
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But yeah, that's basically where we stand with my thoughts on relationships.
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Yeah, with that cute little comment that people would always leave that I was pushing 30 and give me my quedar de jala.
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I don't think your life ends at 30.
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I don't think your life ends at 40.
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I don't think your life ends at 50.
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Your life ends when you don't wake up another day.
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But until that day happens, I'm going to continue to pivot.
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I'm going to continue to learn.
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I'm going to continue to grow as a person and move in life with good intentions and trying to be a good person and pour love into people.
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And you know, if love is in the cards for me, that love will eventually find me.
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Maybe it'll find me when I'm 40.
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Maybe it'll find me tomorrow.
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Maybe it'll find me when I'm 70, and maybe it won't find me ever.
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But I don't ever feel like I lag in love.
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So that's pretty much it.
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If you made it till the end of this video, make sure to like, comment, subscribe, share everything else.
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It really does help a lot.
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And yeah, I will see you guys in the next video.
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Again, I'm going to start posting every Saturday morning, so hold me to it.
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
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And until next time, take care of yourself, take care of others, and always remember to leave things better than you found them.
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
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Hey, what's up y'all?
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It's your girl Papi Brit.
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Welcome to Platicando con Papi.
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If it's your first time here, then welcome.
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And if you've been here before, welcome back.
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Thank you so much for making time and space for me.
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Before we get started, make sure to like, make sure that you're subscribed and show some love.
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I have decided that I'm going to be posting on Saturdays.
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I know it's not the best day to post, which I don't really care.
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I have Fridays off, and it just works out perfectly that I can just dedicate my Friday nights to doing this and then and have them ready to go on Saturday mornings.
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So that's the plan moving forward, and yeah, we're officially back.
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I made it a point to make sure that if there was one thing I did today was to record this podcast because I'm holding myself to that.
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Today I decided I'm gonna talk a little bit about relationships because one of the main like quote unquote hate comments or annoying comments that I would get all the time when I was doing my podcast consistently was about how I'm pushing 30.
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And well, I am low-key.
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I'm 28, about to be 29 in December, so pushing 30, but like also that I don't think that's a bad thing.
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One of the main things that they would say is that I was pushing 30, that after 30, no one's gonna want me, and that I needed to like hurry up and find someone because yeah, I wasn't gonna be able to find anyone, you maybe like that.
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And like now that I think about it, after being like single for five years, and now I'm at a point where I literally like I don't even talk to anyone, I have no romantic interest, nothing.
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And I've decided like I literally have no interest in dating people right now.
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This whole thing about being 30 and like that your life is over or that you need to settle down is such a stupid, outdated idea, and just the fact that so many people think that being in a relationship is the ultimate marker of success in your life, and for me that's never been the case.
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So, well, actually, let's not lie, there was a point actually in my life where I did care about dating and did want to find the love of my life and whatever.
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Like, I I'm a lover girl at heart, and so I did want to find someone to spend my life with, and I wanted like that fairy tale relationship and ending, which I and the relationships I've been in have not gotten.
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And so I actually figured I would start with that because I now recognize and know, and like kind of have always been like I'm a self-aware person, but like I played a huge role into like the shitty relationships I ended up in because I chose these people ultimately.
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Like, I had a tendency to choose people that did not choose me.
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I wanted to like chase after people and like prove myself to them and like love them into loving me, and they would show me exactly who they were.
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But I was the type of person that thought I could fix people, I saw their potential, just overly invested myself when I would get rejected or when I would get cheated on.
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I felt like it was something that had to do with me, and like I have learned that it literally has nothing to do with you, but yeah, like I I recognized that the people I was choosing were not the best people, so I I did play a role in my own suffering, and that had to do a lot with like my own self-worth and just wanting to be loved and feel loved, and just the way I grew up and the relationships I saw growing up.
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I thought love was giving people a million chances and loving them for their potential and loving them for the good sides that they would show you and like avoiding all of the bad.
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I do need to give myself some grace because you know, all along, like I realized that I was looking for love that I was missing within myself.
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And so if anything, I just want to give myself like younger me a hug and tell her that it was never hurt.
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If anything, like she was more than enough, oftentimes way more than those men deserved.
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So it's fine, we've grown.
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But yeah, like I have not had the best luck in relationships.
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If people know, if you know, you know, because I never shut up about them.
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But like I've been cheated on really badly.
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My exes have had babies on me.
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One of my exes somehow turned out to be gay.
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I have not had like the best luck in love.
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I'm one of those people that when I care about someone, I'm all in.
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I just again saw people for their potential, and I just wanted to be like, you know, it's not about the money.
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Like, you know, we can, you know, grow together, whatever.
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And it's just like I'm not, I'm at a point where I'm not here to build a man.
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I am not here to teach a man how to be a man, I'm not here to teach a man how to be a normal, functioning human being.
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I'm not here to be a man's mom.
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I just went after people that didn't offer me anything, basically.
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I would just see the shittiest people and be basically like, I can fix you.
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And you know, I realized it's not my job nor my place to try to fix anyone, and ultimately, like, you can't fix people.
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People are gonna be who they are now that I've gotten older and I see like the relationships around me.
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You like end up realizing that a lot of people just end up settling, and it's really sad to see that a lot of people would rather put up with a shitty partner, just not being content in order to just have a relationship.
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And I know a lot of people do it also for their children.
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I'm not here to judge, especially if I'm not in that situation.
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Can no longer imagine myself being in a situation where I'm just like survival mode, unhappy, on alert, always like, what are they doing?
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I don't believe in checking phones, I don't believe in all of that toxic shit.
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I don't believe in abusing each other, hitting each other, even yelling.
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Like, I don't think that's what love is and what it should be.
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I would rather just be alone than have that.
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Even if I do have children with them, and I know like it's hard, you know.
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I'm speaking from a place of privilege, and obviously I know that everyone's situation is completely different, but also that's also why I refuse to have children.
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Like, I refuse to get pregnant by someone that is not my husband, and I know that things can happen after, but like at least they have some type of commitment to you, you know.
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I just don't see myself in a place anymore where I would tolerate that kind of behavior or that kind of disrespect, and like I did before, like a lot.
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I would get a lot of hate girly texts, and I would be manipulated also, especially my last ex.
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Um, he was a fucking narcissist, okay?
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Again, gotta give myself grace, but hold myself accountable.
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I found myself going back, and like I know a lot of people have been here too.
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You just think about the good moments, the moments where they show you that they do have a heart, that they can be good people.
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You just kind of hold on to that and hope that one day they can grow into being that person.
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I know what I want and I know what I don't want.
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Like, I have been through a lot of again shitty things, and so I just know that if it's not what I want, then I'm I'd rather be alone.
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I'm content with my life, I'm at peace.
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I don't feel like I'm on survival mode anymore.
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I take care of myself, I work, I'm smart, I'm pretty, I'm a good I know I have a good heart, I'm family-oriented, like I know I'm a good person, I have a good life, and so I don't want to go back to a point where I am questioning myself or making myself feel small or feel like a bad person, or just like allowing people to dim my light or tell me what to do because I feel like that's one thing that happens a lot in the people I end up dating.
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They see me, they see how I dress, they see how I express myself, they see that I'm a very like outgoing person.
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I know a lot of people, and at first they're cool with it, and then once we start actually dating, they start attacking those same things and expect me to change.
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And I'm one of those people I'm not going to change who I am.
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I've been in relationships in the past where I did and I completely lost myself and overextended myself and received nothing in return.
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I ended up getting cheated on, I ended up getting dogged.
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Like I ended up looking fucking stupid for people that I would have like bent over backwards for and that I did bend over backwards for.
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I was literally the definition of a fucking ride or die, and I thought that was like a symbol of pride that I should have had.
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Now I don't see that uh like me overextending myself as a symbol of pride.
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I want a relationship where we're both mutually pouring into each other.
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And again, if it's not making my life better, if it's not improving my life, then I genuinely just don't need it, don't want it.
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I am okay with never having children.
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You know, if I do get blessed with them, I would be more than happy to have children, but I'm only gonna have them with a person that actually wants to be a parent and that will actually be accordingly and take care of me because otherwise I'm good.
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You know, there's so many women that I admire that are like older women and that never got married, and they're the happiest women.
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They are healthy, thriving, successful, traveling, and that doesn't seem like a bad life to me at all.
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I have so many other beings that I can pour my love into.
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I'm surrounded by so much love and like people that I love, and so it's not like I would end up alone.
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I just would find different things to love and different things that love me.
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I just don't think that a relationship is the ultimate marker of success.
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I don't think that because someone is married or because they're in a relationship, they're more successful or even more happy.
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I see it firsthand all the time.
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Some people in relationships are fucking miserable.
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As I move forward, I'm not looking for love.
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I genuine believer that if it's meant for me, I'm going to find it.
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My plan is to just continue on with my life, my plans, and if God has it in the cards for me to fall in love and have a family and do whatever, that person will find me and we will meet each other where we're at and like build together.
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But I no longer care to seek out people that don't care for me.
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I am not going to chase after people, I no longer just see people for their potential.
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And as soon as I see a red flag, I'm like, okay, yeah, this isn't for me.
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For me in the past, I feel like I really did struggle with that.
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And when things didn't work out with people, or when I got rejected or put down or whatever by someone, I genuinely thought it was something that had to do with me.
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And now that I look back on it, like every single person that fumbled me or that did me dirty or mistreated me or whatever, God has shown me exactly why it didn't work out with them and what he was protecting me from.
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There's so many people in my past.
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For example, my exes have always told me they recognize what they had after the fact, and that's what happens with me so often is that I overpour and I overgive and I over love and overly invest myself, and people just don't value it.
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I've had conversations with people that fumbled me in the past, and they've always told me they just didn't recognize what they had.
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I have people that it could have been something, but they weren't ready for a relationship.
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Now coming around being like, Oh, you were you're like everything, you're the one that I want.
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We should be together.
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That does nothing for me.
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It is not, it doesn't feel good when people treated me so shitty when I was invested in them and now want to come back.
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They see that the grass wasn't fucking greener on the other side.
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That's one thing that helped me get over getting cheated on and has allowed me to just detach is learning that it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with that person.
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Most of the time, those people have their own shit going on, their own battles, and it you just end up being a casualty because of it.
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For example, my fucking ex like had nothing to do with me.
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He was just fucking DL, you know.
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Now when things don't work out, I don't see it as a loss for me.
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I'm not sitting there like, why didn't they want me?
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I just see it as like, okay, they just fumbled something fucking great.
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They're fucking stupid.
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I know for a fucking fact they're going to come back around and think that they're going to get the same me and that they're going to get the same loving and caring and nice person that they received at first.
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But no, once you do me dirty, I just can't see you the same again.
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You will never get that side of me ever again.
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You will not get that me twice.
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And so these people come back around thinking shit's sweet, and it's really not.
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If anything, they should be grateful that I don't hate them.
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Would also always get laughed at because they would say that like I go out of, like, I would go out of my way for these men.
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Now I just don't go out of my way for men.
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Even to this day, I don't regret it because I am the love that I give.
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I know that that love will be returned to me in other ways, and God always does return it to me in other ways, and I know that the love that I give will never be for granted.
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I feel like I have so much love to give, and I'm never going to change my heart or start being a shitty person or being toxic back or whatever, like getting out of character just to get my lick back.
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If it's getting me out of character, if it's making me anxious, if it's making me question myself, then it's probably not for me.
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And I've just learned to just kind of let those things go, prioritize my peace, my happiness.
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I'll be damned if I let another man dim my light or make me feel small or question my word.
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Now I'm just genuinely like focusing my time and my energy on things that love me and make me feel loved back and that I can pour into, but that they also pour back into me.
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Now I know that I am the price and will continue to be the price.
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I'm not going to let those shitty experiences change my heart.
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But yeah, this is also a gentle reminder that if it's getting you out of your character, making you be someone that you're not, alienating you from the people that you love, making you question your worth, then it's probably not for you.
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That is not what love is supposed to feel like.
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Love is supposed to feel safe, love is supposed to feel good, love is supposed to calm your nervous system.
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And so if it's not doing that for you, then it's probably not for you.
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And it's better for you to pour that love into yourself, invest into yourself, spend that time with yourself, spend that time pouring love into yourself and into things that make you feel good, that make you feel better, and spending time with people that make you feel good and make you feel better and that genuinely love you because love comes in so many different forms, and you can find it in literally any and everything in life.
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So it's important to remind yourself that relationships are not the end all be all, and even when you are a lover girl or someone that loves way too hard, you can invest that love into other people, into people that are less fortunate, into complimenting people that you see on the street or being kind to someone and helping them out, leaving a nice comment and hyping someone up, whatever it is, you can continue to give love, and the universe will always give it back to you tenfold.
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When you move with good intentions and you have a good heart, world will return it to you.
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So it's never your loss.
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But yeah, that's basically where we stand with my thoughts on relationships.
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Yeah, with that cute little comment that people would always leave that I was pushing 30 and give me my quedar de jala.
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I don't think your life ends at 30.
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I don't think your life ends at 40.
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I don't think your life ends at 50.
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Your life ends when you don't wake up another day.
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But until that day happens, I'm going to continue to pivot.
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I'm going to continue to learn.
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I'm going to continue to grow as a person and move in life with good intentions and trying to be a good person and pour love into people.
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And you know, if love is in the cards for me, that love will eventually find me.
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Maybe it'll find me when I'm 40.
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Maybe it'll find me tomorrow.
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Maybe it'll find me when I'm 70, and maybe it won't find me ever.
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But I don't ever feel like I lag in love.
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So that's pretty much it.
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If you made it till the end of this video, make sure to like, comment, subscribe, share everything else.
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It really does help a lot.
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And yeah, I will see you guys in the next video.
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Again, I'm going to start posting every Saturday morning, so hold me to it.
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
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And until next time, take care of yourself, take care of others, and always remember to leave things better than you found them.
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
