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Why You’re Worth It Even If You’ve Been Left Or Rejected
When you hear someone say, “It was worth it,” what are they really saying?
Is that a matter of cost, of value, of quality, of getting the most out of a situation?
Or all of the above?
If you can apply the “it was worth it” label to a thing or object, is that also true for people too?
The cost of the self-worth battle we all face
I wonder about this a lot because self-worth is a struggle for most of us. It was a very painful and difficult struggle for me for most of my life, coming to a head when I faced something more difficult than anything I’d ever dealt with before: the end of my marriage.
Divorce is a cataclysmic event. It doesn’t matter who was wrong or at fault or who left whom.
The end of a commitment made for life between two people is the end of a world that was created to foster life for two people, potentially more. When worlds end, the grieving process takes on a whole new feeling.
Each relationship is a life
A relationship is a living thing. Or it is, until it isn’t. When two people end the relationship, especially if one spouse walks away forever, that life is no more. Except it’s a…
