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Everyone Deserves Someone Who Appreciates Their Beauty But Also Their Bruises

I'd rather be alone than be unhappy.

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Everyone Deserves Someone Who Appreciates Their Beauty But Also Their Bruises
Cindy von Ahlefeldt

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest fool of all? It must be me who won't stop trying, or maybe the ones who left me crying.

We've all been heartbroken simply because we were always "too much" or maybe not enough for someone.

Most of us dream of fairy tale love stories. The ones where we are loved through everything, with a happy ending and the perfect guy on a white horse. But as a 20-year-old, I have learned the hard way. Life is not a Disney fairy tale like "Cinderella" or "Beauty and the Beast" where true love chases us down, or people fall in love with who you are and not what you look like.

No, unfortunately, we live in the real world. And in my experience, it's in a world of unrealistic beauty expectations, money and "whatever-society-wants."

I have been in friendships and relationships where I wasn't cared for. The only thing that mattered was what I could offer them.

In these relationships, we might be seen as some "prize," someone who fits society's beauty standards and has something to offer. Never did they care about any little detail about me. I am a sucker when it comes to love, and I believe in true love so I stayed too long.

I believed people could change, sometimes they do, but for the most part, this was not true.

I have loved so many people with the hope that their love for me would change. I didn't want them to change... I just wanted them to love me as much as I loved them.

Instead, they just wanted me to complete their status. I was some sort of possession to them, and no matter what I did, they just tried to control me.

They wanted me to change to fit perfectly into their life, but I was not willing to be anything less than I was. I wasn't going to change for anyone.

I had given them so much time, love and effort, but in the end, I didn't receive the love I gave.

I believe in giving, making someone feel special and loving with everything I have.

I believe in memorizing every detail about the person.

The way they like their coffee, what makes them sad and what their favorite color is. I truly cared for them, and everything they did mattered to me. Yes, I am the girl who asks so many questions. I am the girl who wants to know you for who you are.

Sadly, nobody ever really wants to get to know me for me.

They always avoided my questions. I was always "too much," and I had to back off.

I wanted to love every part of them, but they never really loved me or opened up to me when I was vulnerable by telling them everything they asked.

It is sad when you spend so much time with someone to just feel ignored, unwanted and not really cared for.

The worst part is that it always ends in a way that I know way too much about them, but they never really cared to know me.

I am heartbroken, but they'll be over it in a day.

I always felt like I deserved someone who loved me the same way I did. I believed in finding someone who'd love every single detail about me.

I wanted someone who would love me at my best, but love me more even at my worst. The funny thing is when bad came to worse, so did my relationships.

Everyone deserves someone who loves them every day like it may end the next.

Everyone deserves someone who'd be there for them any time of the day.

Everyone deserves someone who'd drive for 10 hours just to be with you for one.

Everyone deserves someone who motivates you and loves you through all your flaws.

Everyone deserves someone who listens.

I believe every girl wants someone to love her no matter how moody she thinks she is, no matter how many scars she has or how much she weighs.

How ugly she thinks she looks without makeup or how she can secretly finish a whole pizza by herself.

None of this matters, because true love accepts all these flaws and loves you even more because of them.

Everyone wants someone to bring them flowers or write love letters.

I am not saying that I want the most expensive flower bouquets or fancy love letters. No, I want to be on your mind, and when you see something that reminds you of me, I want to know.

I want you to know what makes me happy because I will always try my best to see you happy.

I want someone who treats me "like I'm the only girl in the world" and loves me no matter how many times I cry, or how many times I say silly things.

I believe many of us want to be loved and appreciated not for the way we look or what we accomplish, but for the person that we are.

Many of us don't want to be alone so we settle for less. We settle for people who will never truly love us, who will make us happy for a while, but not in the long run. We settle for what society wants, and to me, this is sad because I did the same too.

I have been told that I am "too much" for some, not enough for others and there is a reason these relationships ended. I have learned that I'd rather be alone than be with someone who makes me unhappy. If you stay with someone simply because of comfort you are treating the other person unfairly because, in the end, you are wasting your time, and so are they.

You are taking away the time they deserve to find someone who can love them fully. And you deserve it too.

I was never "too much," and I was always enough, and so are you. If you are not being treated with the love you think you deserve there is no reason to stay. If they don't love you for the person that you are, they do not deserve you. Every flaw makes you unique, and you should never change for anyone.

The right person will love you no matter what.

They won't love you for the way you look, how much money you have or how society labels you. They will love you for the moody, crazy person that you think you are, and they will love every part of you.

Until you find someone who loves you for you, don't settle. Never settle for anything less than you deserve.

Your prince will come one day. He may not ride a white horse or live in a big castle, but he will love you for you, and you might live happily ever after, just the two of you.

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