Relationship Goals

by Christina C. Jones

Anybody who has the power to alter how you feel about yourself will absolutely use it. What better hands to wield such a power than your own?”

love yourself, drink your water, mind your business thing wasn’t a hustle for me – it was a lifestyle.

You aren’t the same person you were five years ago, or hell, even last year. So even the people who’ve known you all that time, there are parts of you they’ll have to learn all over again. And even outside of that, we contain multitudes. There’s always something new to figure out.”

I do a lot of observing, a lot of people watching, you know? And something I’ve realized is that actual conversations, the exchange of ideas and opinions… we don’t do a ton of it. Not anymore.

If you’re planning to spend your life with someone, consideration is basic decency.”

Experience is only the best teacher if you’re using it to learn what behaviors not to accept, honing your preferences – not using it as an excuse to let the good ones pass you by.”

We tend to spend a lot of time on how to be good to other people, forgiving them, moving past their mistakes, all of that. But we don’t often give ourselves that same grace,

Every intimate connection – and not just the romantic ones - come with lessons. For you to learn what you like and don’t like, will or won’t accept, can and can’t do, for you to hurt, and heal.