Tough Love

Barbara DiGangi
Women’s Empowerment
1 min readMay 11, 2016

Don’t ever look for Love. Don’t ever force Love. Let Love find you.

To do so means giving and putting Love out there — in everything you do. And this includes giving yourself some tough Love.

Tough self-Love: the pre-req for Love.

Self-love coming through all sorts of learning opportunities.

The guy who all you saw was an addiction to what was beneath his clothes. A mutual addiction. One that robbed you in an instant but the lesson paid you abundantly.

The guy who told you your belly button was tiny and your walls were big. He reassured you were lovely and loveable. Did all the right things and made you feel all the right ways until he lost his temper, cutting you with his words.

The guy you know like the back of your hand. You feel you may be the only one who has genuinely cared this greatly about him. One touch from him leading to a hundred racy thoughts yet those seemed like his only musings about you..

The guys after your heart but you‘re not after theirs.

All degrees of love. Pieces of your love. Pieces of their love.

But not LOVE.

Pieces.

They say all types of relationships are assignments.
Opportunities for growth.

Stay clear. Intentional. Aligned.

It’s tough, love.

It’s tough Love.

Tough, love.

And you’re tough, love.

Tough.

Love…

it shouldn’t be tough.

You’re tougher, love.

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Barbara DiGangi
Women’s Empowerment

Director of Community Wellness Initiatives. NYC-based activist + social impact strategist for racial equity + emotional well-being. Views mine. She/her.