Single-Mooning: Falling back in love with oneself one day at a time

Just wanted to pause and drop a quick line to encourage someone today: KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE FINISH LINE!! Do not be distracted by anything that comes to kick you off course. Whether that is an external person or boundary making your goal feel impossible or whether that is a force in your head listing all the reasons why it can't come to pass. When you're driving your car, you look FORWARD toward the direction you're going, right? IF you do have to look left or right, it's simply to momentarily glance at your surroundings, not to keep your eyes turned there. Why? Because failure to watch where you're going, leads to you crashing, leads to a delay in you reaching your destination. Being distracted is costly and your future you can't afford that expense. I don't care if that goal is a new relationship, but you're up against countless situationships that have ended and gone nowhere. I don't care if that goal is a new house or car and your lend...

Good morning, readers! There is a currently 3 minute long voicemail in my phone from a suitor. It's been in my inbox for awhile  now, partially because I'm curious what you could possibly say on a voicemail for 3 minutes. The other part, if I'm honest, is because listening could be the last little confirmation that this is it--- the last phone call, the final signal that our little situationship is really, for real, finally over. I keep staring at the phone sporadically throughout the day wondering what exactly this 3 minutes entails. Is this the apology that he would never say to my face and would only have the courage to say on a voicemail? Is this him serenading me, like he used to in the beginning, before the "honeymoon" phase ended and life got real? Is this him berating me and listing line for line all the reasons why we both know this thing we were building was doomed from the beginning and cannot, WILL NOT work? Anyone else ever been there? Where...