Only you will ever fully understand what a big deal it is when your Facebook business page reaches X amount of likes, or when that influencer reposts your article, or when that online store picks up your line of accessories. Friends and family outside of your industry will rarely understand how much work you put into that and what it means. So look to yourself for a pat on the back.
Sometimes, he calls you out of the blue and has an idea for you. He’s regularly coming up with suggestions for how you can do more of what you love or how you can improve your work (in a positive feedback way—not a negative way). He’s that excited for you and about your work.
If your girls want a girls’ night, don’t push to turn it into a couples’ night. Don’t ask if you can bring your guy. They’ll say sure, but they won’t like it. If they wanted it to be a couples’ night they would have said so.
Joined at the hip me and my boyfriend are not.
If you act as if you don’t need him, what’s his incentive to stay around? We, independent women, have to realize that self-sufficiency and independence are different.
How do you feel about the concept?
In an effort to get you to “jump back on this Tyrese train and be a ride-or-die forever,” (those are really his words), Tyrese has broken down what it means to be an “independent woman” in the eyes of a man as he encourages black women in particular to remain open to black men.