I have always know that the bar is on the floor. I don’t feel like I have every really taken into consideration of the standard I set for people I let into my life romantically.

As many know now, I just WENT through it. Truly horrible experience. I really let someone treat me however they wanted to with no self preservation for myself and what I need/deserve.

One way I keep saying it is that somehow I couldn’t connect the dots when they were right next to each other. Kind of embarrassing but hey, at least I finally got there.

Turns out the way I treat others is also the way I want to be treated. I’ve even said that sentence verbatim, yet didn’t apply it to anyone I have been interested in romantically.

So yay me, I have a win now. Time for me to hold people to those standards I guess.