Prima di innamorarvi della ragazza che non ama se stessa, sappiate questo

Sarà la migliore fidanzata che abbiate mai avuto. Sarà tre persone in una: la vostra migliore amica, compagna e amante.

She will give you the love she never knew how to give herself and she will make you feel like you’re the luckiest man alive. But don’t take her gentle heart for granted.

Don’t play with her emotions because she’s been through much already. Be ready to love her for both of you; to tell her every day how beautiful and amazing she is and someday, she will believe you.

Every time you tell her that she’s beautiful and she dismisses it, it’s not because she wants your attention. It’s because she doesn’t believe you. She doesn’t see the same person you do.

She can’t see the beauty in her eyes and the joy in her laugh. She sees eyes that are too small and hears a laugh that’s too loud.

She can’t see her beautiful face because she sees a nose that’s too big and lips that are too small.

She can’t see the amazing body you love because she sees stretch marks and fat where there is none.

It’s not because she wants to—it’s because she doesn’t know any different.

Ogni volta che le dite quanto è fantastica e lei arrossisce e distoglie lo sguardo, dimostratele che siete sinceri.

Kiss her and prove to her that she is the best thing that has ever happened to you. Every time she laughs at your compliments like they are some kind of joke, show her that they’re not.

Show her that you mean them and don’t let her turn the love you two have into a joke, only because she’s afraid of it. Don’t let her laugh away the truth, just because she thinks it’s unbelievable.

Every time she worries that you’re with someone else, it’s not because she doesn’t trust you. It’s because she doesn’t trust herself.

It’s because she’s used to non essere abbastanza and she believes that you will leave as everyone else did. She believes that she has nothing worth staying for because that’s what others made her believe.

She imagines you with other women—with better looking, smarter and funnier women. And she keeps on wondering why you’re still here.

Perché al suo posto se ne sarebbe andata da un pezzo. Ogni volta che cade, aiutatela a rialzarsi.

Siate presenti per incoraggiarla a credere di nuovo in se stessa. Siate lì per mostrarle la donna che vedete quando la vedete.

Mostratele la donna straordinaria, fiera e forte che è. Mostratele la bella donna di cui vi siete innamorati, non la versione distorta che vede allo specchio.

Give her love, time and patience because learning to heal is hard, but learning to love yourself again, when you’ve been told that you’re unworthy all your life, is way harder.

Fighting her past and fighting her fears is something she’s doing on a daily basis and she needs your help. Because bruises come and go, but the echoing words are what haunts her.

Don’t let her go to bed thinking she’s not enough. Don’t let her go to bed without hearing: ‘I love you’ perché si chiederà ogni giorno se c'è ancora amore.

She will wonder every day what’s keeping you here. What kind of miracle happened for you to choose her?

It’s up to you to show her that lei is that miracle—she’s the reason you’re scegliendola ogni giorno.

That she’s the reason you love her madly. And someday, she will believe the words that come out of your mouth.

Finalmente vedrà la donna che vedete voi e non quella che crede di essere.