Living Your Best (Love) Life: How To Break Free From Bare Minimum Relationships

Essence Magazine:

By Jazmine Denise Thompson ·Updated September 12, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

There are things worse than cheating.

Hear me out.

As a child of the ‘90s, who was raised by Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton, and Faith Evans, I grew up thinking the only relationship pitfall I had to be on the lookout for was an unfaithful man. This mindset, of course, caused me to miss innumerable other gaslight yourself:

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