My best friend and I were having a conversation about relationships. I was sharing with him that my partner in my next relationship must come to the table willing and able to give and be 100 percent. Something inside of me knew I should not have made that comment. The next thing I knew, he asked me, jokingly yet seriously, what is this table that women keep talking about. I thought, “Oh Lord, here we go”. My initial response to the question was that the table is the relationship. However, after given it much more thought, I realized that for me, coming to the table means coming into the presence of myself such that there is harmony on all levels of being – mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically.
Reflecting on my past relationships, I am aware, acknowledge, and accept that I entered the relationships unauthentically. I was not mentally prepared for what relationships had to offer. Heck, I didn’t even know what I had to offer. I was not spiritually grounded in what was the truth for myself. My beliefs centered on what I thought others wanted me to believe. I was emotionally detached, as one of my other friends put it. And physically….well let’s just say that my physical aspect was nothing more than a representation of how I functioned in unison with my mental, spiritual, and emotional levels.
The one constant lesson I learned from my relationships is that I must be that which I desire to experience in them. This is one of the reasons why I am taking this journey, my journey, into being a Liberated Woman. My liberation is freeing and lifting my spirit to be able to give 100% in my relationships and is creating within my spirit the space for me to receive 100%.
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