Quando perderes a pessoa com quem te estás a contentar, vais perceber o que mereces

Even though you aren’t aware of this, há alturas em que querer e precisar de algo são duas coisas diferentes.

Momentos em que estamos convencidos de que perder alguém de quem gostamos muito nos destruiria completamente, quando, a longo prazo, seria a melhor coisa que nos poderia acontecer.

Momentos em que estamos convencidos de que agarrarmo-nos a uma pessoa vai melhorar a nossa vida, quando na verdade deixar ir deles é exatamente o que tem de fazer, apesar de toda a dor temporária que isso lhe possa causar.

Times when you don’t see that you are settling for way less than you deserve, thinking it’s the best you can ever have.

É exatamente isso que se passa consigo e com o homem com quem está envolvida neste momento.

You don’t want to let him go because you don’t know that bigger things await you once you do.

Even though deep down you are very much aware that he is not the guy for you, you keep on hoping that things will change for the better and that one of these days, he’ll become the man you need him to be.

Let’s face it—you are terrified of walking away from this man because you don’t know if you could survive without him.

Tem medo que perdê-lo a danifique emocionalmente ao ponto de não haver reparação.

Bem, não estou aqui para vos mentir, dizendo-vos que deixar este homem ir embora seria fácil, porque será tudo menos isso.

Sim, no início vai ser um inferno. Vai ser mau. Até melhorar.

After a while, you’ll finally see that all this time, you were just settling for less.

Maybe you did it because he manipulated you into thinking that you’d never find someone else, maybe you were afraid of being alone, maybe you did it because of the past you guys shared together or maybe you didn’t have the courage to escape from the comfort zone he represented.

Either way, the point is the same—you were getting back less than you were giving and less than you deserved.

After a while, you’ll understand that things had to be this way—that everything in life happens for a reason and for a bigger cause.

You’ll understand that God always has a plan and that this guy had a role in your life—that he was there to teach you some valuable life lessons.

That if it wasn’t for this man, you would never know what you don’t want from life and what you don’t need from a man.

You’ll see that all of the struggles you had to go through were just there to toughen you up and to turn you into the woman you are today.

Que tiveste de passar por uma relação sem amor para finalmente aprenderes a amar-te.

Que foi preciso ser traído para se tornar suficientemente forte para confiar em si próprio.

You’ll see that sometimes, God fixes you just to put you back together.

Que há alturas em que temos de nos desfazer em pedaços para reconstruirmos uma versão melhor e mais poderosa de nós próprios.

Most importantly, once you finally move on from this man, you’ll understand that the only way to truly realize what you deserve is to lose everything and everyone you’re settling for.

Que a única maneira de abrir caminho para o homem digno de si é livrar-se de todos aqueles que nunca foram suficientemente bons.

Que a única maneira de encontrar o Sr. Certo é deixar de lado todos os Srs. Erros.

And once this special man finally enters your life, and he will come when you least expect him to, it is only then when you’ll grow to understand why it never worked with all those guys before him.

It is only then when you’ll grow to understand that you simply had to go through all of those half-assed loves because if it wasn’t for them, you would never know how to recognize the right one when you saw him, nor would you appreciate it the right way.