love at the crossroads

I found this on my Threads this morning ... It was posted by crossroadsatmidnight and the post made me cry because this is me 100%! It is how I feel, where I am at... This is so accurate it's scary! 

The post:

Listen here, baby. The ancestors pulling me to sit with y'all Water Signs today because there's some heavy truth that needs to come out into the light. 

And I ain't talking about no surface level feelings neither. We going deep, where it hurts, where it's been festering.

There's a confusion sitting right in the center of your chest that you been trying to name for months now.

See, you got all this love to give, real genuine love, the kind that could heal somebody if they'd just receive it right.

But here's what's happening….you been putting your energy into something that got an expiration date on it, and deep down, you know it. 

And there's this younger energy around you, maybe somebody new showing interest or maybe it's just the version of you that still believes in the fairy tale, and that part of you fighting with the part that's tired. You caught between what you wish it was and what it actually is.

Now let me tell you about this wound, because it go way back. There was a time, probably when you was young or just getting into understanding what love supposed to look like, when you got the message that your needs was too much. Whether it was a parent who couldn't hold space for your feelings, or a first love who made you feel like asking for consistency was asking for too much, you learned to make yourself smaller. 

You learned to be the one who understands, who waits, who doesn't rock the boat. 

And that wound got you out here stable in all the wrong situations. You be the one holding everything together when everything falling apart. You became the person who can function in dysfunction, and baby, that ain't the blessing you think it is. You keep choosing people who need you to be strong because somewhere along the way you decided that's how you earn love. 

Not by being soft, not by being held, but by being the holder. And it got you twisted up because now you attracted to people who need fixing. 

You see somebody struggling and your wound says "there go your purpose," when really, there go your pattern.

You putting your heart in layaway plans, paying on something that ain't never gon' be yours whole.

Here's the pattern, and it's been running your love life like a script you can't seem to rewrite. You keep ending up in situations where you giving your all to somebody who only showing up halfway. 

And it ain't even that they bad people, they just emotionally unavailable or still tied up in they own mess, and you keep thinking your love gon' be the thing that change them.

You see potential like it's the same thing as reality. Every time you meet somebody new, there's this fresh start energy, this feeling like "this time it's different," and for a little while it is. 

They say the right things, they show up just enough to keep you hopeful, and you start building a whole future in your mind. But then the same story start playing out. They pull back. They get distant. They need space but they don't want you to go nowhere.

And you stay because you already invested. You already caught feelings. You already told yourself this one worth fighting for. 

The reason you ain't seen it yet is because you been looking at each person like they the problem, when really, you the common denominator choosing them. 

You got a picker that's broke, and until you fix what in you that keep saying yes to crumbs, you gon' keep sitting at tables where you starving.

The pattern is you'd rather have somebody part time than be alone, and that fear got you stuck in a loop where you keep attracting the same energy in different faces.

Now this the part where it get uncomfortable, but the ancestors ain't let me come here to make you comfortable. 

They sent me to wake you up. You got to surrender this idea that you can love somebody into being ready for you. You cannot, baby. You cannot love them awake.

You cannot be so good to them that they finally see your worth. That ain't how it work, and you been carrying this burden like it's your job to prove you deserve to be chosen. Let that go. Surrender the need to control how this unfold. 

You been holding on so tight, trying to manage every outcome, trying to make things work through sheer will, and all it's doing is exhausting you. You got to release the grip. Surrender the fantasy of who you want them to be and deal with who they actually showing you they is. And here's the biggest thing.. you got to let go of the men you been holding in high regard who ain't holding you in high regard back. There's a masculine energy, maybe more than one, that you been putting on a pedestal, and they sitting up there comfortable while you down here doing all the work. 

The love you calling in can't come until you make space for it, and right now, you got the space full of people and situations that ain't it. You got to be willing to sit in the emptiness for a minute. Be alone. Be still. Stop filling the void with distractions and people who only half in. The surrender is trusting that what's meant for you won't miss you, but you got to be empty enough to receive it.

The ancestors say it's time to stop playing small in your love life. They want you to know that this pattern of settling, this habit of being the understanding one, the patient one, the one who accommodates everybody else's limitations, it ain't your inheritance. That ain't what they passed down to you. What they passed down was the ability to love deep, yes, but also the wisdom to know when to walk away. 

They reminding you that real love, the kind that's built to last, it feel like home. It feel like peace. It don't feel like you gotta convince nobody of your value or wait around hoping they gon' get it together. 

The ancestors showing me two people, two hearts, coming together in a way that's equal. That's what you being prepared for. But you can't step into that if you still holding onto what ain't serving you. They urging you to understand that your heart, with all its capacity to feel and love and hold space, it's sacred. 

And you been letting people who ain't even washed they hands touch it. They want you to know that the love you seeking, it already seeking you, but you got to be in a position to recognize it when it show up. 

And right now, you so used to struggle love, to love that require you to shrink or beg or prove yourself, that you might not even know what healthy love look like if it walked right up to you. The ancestors say pay attention to the new beginning that's trying to come through. 

There's a pure, fresh love energy available to you, but it require you to release the old story first. They say stop being loyal to people who only loyal to you when it's convenient.

Your heart deserve somebody who show up consistent, who don't make you question where you stand, who see you and choose you without you having to audition for the part. 

That's what's waiting. But you got to do the work of releasing what came before. The ancestors got your back, but they can't do for you what you won't do for yourself. It's time to choose you the way you been choosing everybody else.


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