People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn. I'm doing this for me. 

We all want to be liked an appreciated for our many talents, our ferocious intelligence, our good nature, our sparkling personality. But when we start to rely on what other people think of us, and we make their opinion pivotal to our success, we get into trouble. Then we start tailoring our lives to fit the expectations of others, and from there it's a vicious cycle. 

When we give over our power to others and allow that their impressions to become how we perceived, we lose out on who we really are. The only reality we can see is how we believe others see us. 

And I'd like to focus on what matters to me. Not others.

- iannmarie

In this generation there is so much pressure to be unphased, to be unaffected. The world will try to tell you to just move on, to just distract yourself from what is going on in your heart. It will tell you that you care too much, that you need to move forward as quickly as possible. It happens so often; it can make you question yourself. 

But you know what is going on inside of your own soul. You know your heart. No one around you knows how hard you are trying, how much internal work you have done, how brave it is to heal even when it hurts. No one knows your silent battles. No one around you knows what goes through your mind when the world is quiet, and your thoughts, and your pain, and your memories, and your past knock at your door. No one knows what it is like to be you, moving through this season. And no one knows what you have had to endure, on the deepest level. No one knows what you have truly been through, because they did not personally experience the break or the loss or the hurt. 

- iannmarie

How true is this statement? "A good woman is not interested in your money or your status".

What else do we expect from you? I'd like to think and hope that we think both ways in pleasure, fun times and future plans, that only involves you and me. I am that kind of a person that looks beyond of what you have and what you are capable of. 

Long time ago, when I was just around my late 20's. Love was everything to me, all that sweet words that you wanted to hear. I have to admit, I was a rebel that like's guys within my culture. I don't see myself with a foreigner as what my family expect of me. I remember one time, I was told to get a man can support me financially. Someone who doesn't have the mentality of a Filipino. 

I am a full blooded Filipina. No one can dictate who I should get myself involved to, let alone the person who I called my husband. Even if that person doesn't have the lavish lifestyle or much of a wealth, or a good occupation. That's nothing to me. 

- iannmarie

It's not pride, it's self respect. Self-worth and Moral Values. 

Sometimes you need to know your place in someone's life because you might get hurt if you expect too much. That being said, in today's society people can get impulsive and defensive so easily and quickly thinking that they have the right to be with you when they don't. 

The impact can get very messy when you know there isn't a place for you in their lives. This usually triggered when you respond to a negative emotion that weights you down. 

Respecting other peoples relationship and keeping your distance is the best practice you can do to yourself. 

- iannmarie

Sometimes a moment of pause can help us remember who we are when old bad habits trying to sneak up on us. They say that your reactions is your past and your response is your future.

- iannmarie