NO MORE! Transform Your Relationship Mentality
He didn't respect me because he didn't have to.
To look at him, you would have thought he was an upstanding, decent brother--marriage material, even. Mr. "Urban Professional" with good looks and a great job thought he was God's gift to the universe. His clean-cut image fooled the best of them.
But child, looks can be very deceiving. He was a Casanova whose smile could melt you like ice cream in the hot summer sun. He never met a woman he didn't like, even though he had one at home. But sadly, I stayed with him for way too long, knowing somewhere deep down inside, he wasn't worth my time.
I was the other woman, the "wifey" who he was coming home to after he did his dirt, and it broke my mother's heart to see me living that way.
“Don’t make the same mistake I did Ashley,” she always told me, welling up with tears. She recounted how hard it was raising me so young, and how she wanted “so much more” for me.