Hello and welcome to welcome back to try not to care if you're new here.
My name is Ashley I upload every single Monday we do some good ol girl chat I give you some big sister advice we talk mental health navigating life relationships you name it and With this month being the month of love.
I just want each episode to focus on navigating relationships,
whether it's with yourself or with a partner with friends or whatever,
you know, it's the month of love.
Last episode, I talked about building a relationship with yourself,
how to flirt with yourself, how to bring back confidence and playfulness with yourself.
Today, I just want to do a full dedicated episode to spending Valentine's Day alone.
Holidays in general can be really hard to get through when you're single or you're going through a breakup or you're in a relationship that's just not serving you.
Up until I started dating my now fiance Josh,
I obviously had other relationships and I was in these relationships during Valentine's Day.
But even though I was, you know,
dating someone It was almost harder to celebrate Valentine's Day
because I was in those relationships.
I think people think that just
because you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend that you love Valentine's Day and it's so romantic and you feel so loved and so appreciated.
But when you're in a toxic relationship or you're with someone who just does not love you the way that you deserve to be loved,
it can be just as lonely, if not more lonely than being single on Valentine's Day.
In past relationships, I had the lowest of the low for expectations.
The bar was in hell.