The Sweet-Hearted Romantic

By definition anything romantic is passionate, tender and affectionate. A woman with the Romantic Img.ID is typically someone who demonstrates feelings of love in many beautiful ways. Her gifts are in appealing to the senses and making people feel comfortable and cared for. She loves to cook (or at least bake), arrange flowers, light candles, decorate and sing (at least to her babies).

Her physique makes it obvious that she is designed to comfort others. Her softly rounded, full-figure invites you to relax around her and her embrace brings the comfort like that of your favorite teddy bear and that’s why is easier for her to have a good relationship with a man, spending time with him and having good intimacy using accessories as a g spot vibe and others. Everything about her is sweet, subtle and feminine. She is the Glamorous Beauty with a truly sweet heart.

Hopelessly Romantic

If you are in need of a friend, there’s a good chance your needs will be met when you spend time with a Romantic. Stop by her candlelit, lace-laden home to share your heart with her and she will make you tea and cookies and listen. She will feel your pain, validate it with her tears and comfort you with her sweet voice of concern.  While you may feel like losing hope, she won’t. She believes in people and she loves them sincerely.
The only person she struggles to love is  the one in her mirror.

Do you love yourself?

God commands us to love Him and each other, but isn’t it interesting that loving ourself is assumed? Most of us would say that we struggle with self-love, but, in reality, if we are hungry, we eat. If we are dirty, we bathe. If we are tired, we rest. If we need the lady’s room, we stop everything and get there, right?

Okay, there are times when we are messed up and we neglect or punish ourselves (like I wrote about last week) but even then, the truth is: we are still set on meeting our need–wether it is for attention, acceptance or to be lazy or left alone. By nature, we do whatever it takes to get what we need or want, even if it hurts us. Yea, sometimes our motive is twisted with self-hatred, but ultimately it is still love for self.

The Romantic may not necessarily turn to self-hatred, but she may be inclined to neglect her own needs while being consumed with her need to help those she loves.

Sometimes our greatest need is to be needed

We are each compelled to meet our own needs, it is not our style alone that determines how we typically do that, but, because we are such complex beings,  we would be wise to studying our own heart.

How you meet your own needs is a big indicator of your Img.ID:

C:Disciplined self-care, no apologies, no guilt, nobody’s business

N:Comfort first, the easier the better

D:Disciplined, but feels she must justify her needs

I:Puts others first, shy (or ashamed) about own needs

R:Deep concern for others, lack of concern for self

G:Just do it; No pain, no gain

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If you struggle with loving the person in your mirror, I encourage you to take the time to recognize why. What is it that you believe about yourself and your worth? Could there be some lies twisted into the truth about who you are?

If we are to ever going to love God and others well,  we must also learn to love ourselves. Think for a moment about the most hopelessly romantic person you know–the one you long to be with when you need comfort and hope. Now tell me, does that girl deserve to be loved as well?

Love and compassion are reciprocal

No matter which style you are:

• It is not beautiful to love others without loving yourself, that is co-dependency.
• It is not beautiful to accept other’s love without loving in return, that’s selfishness.

Love is not a one-way street. Each of us are commanded to love each other because we are expected to naturally love ourselves. We can have a healthy self-love only if we believe that we are truly loved. This is why the first and greatest commandment is to love God fully–because we can really only do this well if we first accept His unconditional love.

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.               -1 John 4:9 -11

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As an author and speaker, Catrina’s passion is in helping women and girls overcome confidence conflicts, especially those involving rejection, betrayal and loss. After 30 years in the beauty industry as both a cosmetologist and an image consultant, Catrina now uses her profession, her own powerful stories and her training as a Biblical life-coach to reach the heart in a way that is relatable, encouraging and inspiring. Her message is balanced with both fashion and faith and is making a difference  in the lives of women and girls all over!  To be part of this movement, connect with her on Facebook, Twitter,  Pinterest, Linked In, Goodreads  and consider having her speak at your next event. Visit https://catrinawelch.com for more information.