You Must Remember This

A note to anyone who's ever questioned if they're deserving of love

You’ve written yourself so many notes in the dark. Questions scribbled on your phone at 3 AM. Am I too much? Am I not enough? What is wrong with me? You’ve dissected every conversation, every silence, every moment someone chose to leave. The text left on read. The call that never came back. The way they said “I need space” and you never heard from them again.

You’ve spent nights staring at ceilings, replaying all the ways you tried and failed, all the times you gave your best and watched it be treated like it was nothing. You’ve questioned your worth so many times that the question itself has become a wound you can’t stop touching.

But here is what you must remember:

You are not unlovable because someone didn’t know how to love you.

You are not broken because you’ve been hurt.

You are not too much because someone couldn’t hold all of you.

Even now, in this moment, when you feel like love is something that happens to other people or when you scroll past couples and wonder what they have that…