“I didn’t get the love I deserved… but I found strength instead”

I gave my everything…

my time, my love, my patience.

I tried to fix things that were never in my control.

I stayed quiet when I wanted to speak.

I adjusted when it hurt the most.

Because I believed…

if I loved enough, things would change.

But somewhere along the way…

I realized it was never enough.

No matter how much I gave…

something was always missing.

The love I needed…

the respect I deserved…

the support I was silently hoping for…

It never came.

And slowly…

I got tired.

Tired of expecting.

Tired of waiting.

Tired of feeling like I was not enough.

So one day…

I stopped expecting.

Not because I didn’t care anymore…

but because I needed to protect myself.

It wasn’t easy.

Letting go of expectations felt like losing a part of me.

But holding on was hurting even more.

And in the middle of all this pain…

there was someone quietly watching me.

My baby.

He didn’t know my struggles.

He didn’t understand my silence.

But his tiny smile…

his innocent eyes…

somehow reminded me that I still had a reason to keep going.

A reason to stand up again.

I looked at him… and realized something.

Maybe I didn’t get the love I deserved…

but I was still capable of giving love.

And maybe… that was my strength.

I didn’t need someone else to complete me anymore.

I just needed to find myself again.

And slowly…

I started healing.

But healing was never a straight path.

Some days, I felt strong… like I was finally rising again.

And then suddenly… I would fall back into the same pain.

The same tears. The same emptiness.

I kept trying to heal…

but I kept breaking too.

It felt like I was losing and finding myself at the same time.

Falling… and rising… again and again.

And every time I felt like giving up…

I looked at my baby…

and somehow… I found the strength to try again.

And maybe… I wasn’t weak for falling again and again.

Maybe… I was stronger than I ever realized.

Because no matter how many times I broke…

I still chose to rise.

Not for the world…

Not for anyone else…

But for him.

And for myself. ❤️