How many of us were taught that love meant sacrificing ourselves?
That being the "good one" meant carrying everyone else's pain... putting our needs last... staying silent... staying strong... and believing that exhaustion was proof of love.
This song is for every person who confused self-abandonment with love.
Healing begins the moment you realize you can love deeply without losing yourself.
✨ From The Valerie P. Crabbe Experience – The Soundtrack Album
🎙️ "Love Through Sacrifice"
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Lyrics
Somewhere along the way
I started believing
Love looked like giving
Until there was nothing left of me.
I smiled through the hurt.
Stayed quiet through the tears.
Called it kindness...
When it was fear.
I thought
If I loved enough...
They'd stay.
If I sacrificed enough...
I'd matter.
If I disappeared...
Everyone else
Could shine.
I learned love through sacrifice
Thought losing me
Was the greatest gift
I could give.
I gave my voice.
I gave my peace.
I gave my dreams
One piece at a time.
Nobody told me
Love wasn't supposed
To cost me
Myself.
I confused
Loyalty with silence.
Forgiveness
With accepting pain.
I kept making excuses
For people
Who never asked
What it cost me
To keep loving them.
I wore exhaustion
Like a badge of honor.
Thinking
That's what love looked like.
Maybe...
Love was never asking
For my disappearance.
Maybe...
I misunderstood
The assignment.
I learned love through sacrifice
But I'm learning
Love through truth now.
I'm learning
That healthy love
Makes room
For both of us.
I don't have to bleed
To prove
My heart.
I can love you
Without abandoning me.
I can forgive you
Without returning
To what broke me.
I can choose peace
Without choosing silence.
I can choose me
Without choosing guilt.
No more love through sacrifice.
No more shrinking
To make someone else comfortable.
No more confusing
Pain
With purpose.
I'm learning
Love doesn't ask me
To disappear.
Real love
Invites me
To become
More of myself.
Not less.
I finally understand...
Love never asked
For my sacrifice.
Only my honesty.