Maybe I thought it was a fun carnival....but years passed and i learned those red flags meant something and I turned the other cheek. We talked about me growing up boy crazy always wishing I was the girl boys wanted. I think looking back, that made me desperate for that love and attention to feel adored by a man. But where was it coming from if I grew up with the most loving parents? So let's remember this need to be loved by someone, validated by someone and just overall wanted and chosen. When I began dating Max, he was my first everything. I fell for this very good looking man so quickly. He made me feel good, I was completely tunneled vision into everything he was and represented. At the time, he had gone through his personal hardships but he came out of it with a strong testimony of God and chose to be baptized. I fell for the "bad boy" who met Jesus and changed. He liked me? what! A guy this hot wanted ME?! sold. While dating, red flags popped up. The first...
The year is 1998, I'm playing out in our tiny apartment backyard by myself with a Barbie CD player. The song? The wedding march...I would play it and pretend to walk down the isle outside while making sure that no one would see me or I'd be embarrassed. Reality is, I day dreamed with my wedding day since I was really little. Maybe it was the telenovelas I grew up watching that made me a hopeless romantic. Or did it make me dramatic? Who knows, but I always loved love and the idea of one day having a boyfriend who would marry me and we would live happily ever after. As the only daughter, I grew up very well loved, protected and spoiled. We had really little but my parents always ensured that I had what I needed and never felt the lack of anything. I have two older brothers who would try to mess with me but ultimately, I won all arguments cause I'm the princess of the family. With this being said, I was always raised in love. Affection was shown daily, words of affirmation s...