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became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.
“Having your life turned upside down is brutally devastating, but it can help shake loose some emotionally unhealthy issues that need tending.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“If someone is getting in the way of you becoming the person God created you to be or frustrating the work God has called you to do, for you that person is toxic.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“Of course, our parents get an extra dose of importance in our minds. When we’re little, they’re everything—the gods and goddesses that rule our worlds. It takes a lot of growing up, and a lot of disappointment, to accept that they’re just normal, bumbling, mistaken humans, like everybody else.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“Jesus didn’t enable people. Jesus didn’t beg people. Jesus didn’t accept excuses for sin or let people off the hook because they were mostly good.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? How can we do that day after day?”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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