I can’t tell you how many times someone would talk to me about a really cool opportunity, and I would assume I would be unwanted or unvalued in that environment because I wasn’t married. Or I would assume that the opportunity would mess with my chances of meeting my husband. Or I’d even think the opportunity wouldn’t be as fun if I didn’t have a husband there to enjoy it with me.
Read MoreWhen you’re confident that a job, a relationship, or a next step in your life is the right thing, only to have it not work out, it seems like a rush of different feelings hit you like a ton of bricks. Disappointment, heartbreak, confusion, hopelessness…the list keeps going. Typically in the moment a figurative door shuts, we’re not happy about it. But isn’t it amazing as time passes, you begin to gain some clarity as to why that situation didn’t work out the way you wanted it to? Or at the very least, you finally start to feel at peace about the way things turned out instead?
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