{"id":15922,"date":"2024-12-29T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2024-12-29T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T18:37:20","slug":"fierce-love-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/?p=15922","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Love and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15923\" src=\"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iskupmad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iskupmad.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iskupmad-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iskupmad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iskupmad-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p><div class=\"311fe198f191a864c1efcdfa9efedfdf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1782571\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Being a single mom isn\u2019t a failure; it\u2019s proof that I can love my kids fiercely and still love myself enough to walk away from what wasn\u2019t right. When my marriage ended, I was filled with a mix of emotions\u2014relief, fear, guilt, and sadness\u2014but the one thing I didn\u2019t feel was failure. For so long, I thought staying in an unhappy marriage was the best thing for my kids. I believed that the \u201cright\u201d thing was to make it work, no matter what it cost me. But the more I tried to hold it together, the more I lost pieces of myself.<\/p>\n<p>I realized I couldn\u2019t teach my children what it meant to live authentically if I wasn\u2019t doing that myself. Staying in a toxic environment wasn\u2019t giving them a model for love; it was showing them how to sacrifice your happiness for the sake of staying. I wanted more for them\u2014and more for me. So, I made the difficult choice to leave.<\/p>\n<p>There were tough days ahead, days when I questioned my decision, but I never once doubted that I was doing the right thing. I walked away not just for me, but for them. I wanted to show them that love doesn\u2019t mean settling. It means valuing yourself enough to walk away from what isn\u2019t serving you.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as a single mom, I\u2019m living proof that loving yourself doesn\u2019t make you selfish\u2014it makes you stronger. My kids see me embracing my freedom, chasing my dreams, and building a life that reflects my worth. And that\u2019s the legacy I want to leave them: that love begins with self-respect, and sometimes, walking away is the most courageous thing you can do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a single mom isn\u2019t a failure; it\u2019s proof that I can love my kids fiercely and still love myself enough to walk away from what wasn\u2019t&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15924,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions\/15924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}