Healthy relationships?
Hey can y'all share some things that changed when you got healthy relationships? Especially if you were in unhealthy ones before?
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BACKSTORY: My past experience was two different dates in high school (not great typical "only want one thing" boy dates in HS and get mad when it doesn't lead there). My ex husband was abusive. Less so at the beginning and very much so at the end. A couple "situationships" or FWB or been ghosted since my divorce. Some weren't serious and just fizzled out (which I'm grateful for that not all relationship endings have to be as dramatic as my divorce). I also grew up in an abusive household and have low self worth. I've been working on it with therapy I've made A LOT of progress.
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ANYWAY my current honey is so sweet. We're at the very beginning a few weeks in. Not only did I take a chance because he is so attractive like I feel he's so out of my league but he's so kind and thoughtful and smart. He reaches for me and doesn't flinch away when I try to touch him like holding hands and such. He looks at me with such adoration and BOY he is also great in bed. Just the perfect mix of sweet and spicy. Everything about him makes my body and brain tingle. He constantly showers me with compliments and when he holds my hand he loves to kiss my knuckles and down my wrist.
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However I do struggle with feeling like enough for him. I'm also working on that with therapy, but has anyone else struggled with the transition to a healthy and loving partner? Can I get advice on that? Or maybe stories on that it gets better? I've gotten better with my self esteem like I don't try to argue against compliments anymore I just thank people when they compliment me and often will return another compliment.
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I guess it's also a little post that I want to talk about what a wonderful, beautiful, kind man my sweetie is.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.