Fairy Tales

It is so crazy to re-examine the fairytales we were fed as little girls. We were conditioned to believe that, for each of us, there is a handsome man who is patient, kind, respectable, and slow to anger- perfect in every way. We expect him to sweep us off our feet, treat us like royalty, and to drop everything and do anything for us. We are inundated with women in our lives who brag about their perfectly dedicated partners.

So we, too, hope for a prince charming to come along and for our hearts to become instantly, inexplicably intertwined to the point that being away from him for one even second seems catastrophic. And yet, to prove our worth and strength as women, we are instructed to write him off if he exhibits flaws, makes mistakes, or doesn’t stack up to our impossibly high expectations.

Don’t get me wrong- I whole-heartedly believe in fairy tales- but that isn’t a fairy tale, that is destructive fiction.

Real fairy tales take work and dedication. Real fairy tales happen when you work tirelessly on your shortcomings because you feel inspired to be the best version of yourself. Real fairy tales happen when each partner cheers the other on through failures as well as successes. Real fairy tales happen you let each other down and you grow from it. Real fairy tales happen when two people are so relentlessly devoted to each other that they refuse to let any situation break them.

Fairy tales do come true… I’m lucky enough to know firsthand.