I always believed in the saying "You must love yourself before you can

Love another". I believed that if this was true, I would never find the love

You read about and see in movies. I found myself purposely pushing people

Away because I did not love myself enough to be able to care for another so

Deeply. Then one day you showed up and changed my world in a way I did

Not think possible. You showed me that I did not, in fact, need to love myself

Before I could love someone else. You showed me that the path to self-love

Is not one meant to be walked alone. It is a tough journey that takes two

People to trek. I did not want to open up myself to you and have you see

The broken parts that I could not seem to find the right tools to fix. But

You turned out to be the mechanic I never thought I could afford. You

Stitched together my confidence and held my wounded soul until it

Learned to hold itself. I always believed that I could never love another

Until I learned to love myself, but this is not true. Sometimes it takes

Someone to love you first before you can find the courage to love

Yourself. Sometimes it takes another person to show you that you are

Deserving of the love you deprived your own heart.