How do I not lose myself in a relationship?
December 21, 2024
You were going somewhere before you enter the relationship. As the relationship is going through and it's having problems, you're making choices along the way of what kind of a person you're gonna be, what kind of a man you're going to be. And by making certain hard choices, communicating with authenticity, you're choosing to grow in the midst of the relationship. You're engaging with the struggles that are there, and you're developing the man you're going to be through the rest of this relationship, or if the relationship ends, you're deciding and developing right there who the man's gonna be after the relationship.

So when the relationship ends, you're not suddenly some different person. You're actually a continuation of who you were before, who you decided to be while you're in the relationship, and then you're continuing right out the other end. And you're saying, okay, these are all the things that I learned, these are the aspects that I grew in, and now that I'm single again and I'm out there looking, I'm continuing my journey along the way. The journey didn't end. I'm not starting some new journey. There is one first-person journey that is happening the whole time, and I'm coming out the other side, and I'm hopefully a wiser, stronger man as a result.

So moving on is really largely continuing right out the other end of a relationship and moving forward to whatever's next in your life.
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