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The mission of Project Unbreakable is to increase awareness of the issues surrounding sexual assault and encourage the act of healing through art. Since the project's conception in October 2011 by then nineteen year old Grace Brown, it has featured over two thousand images of sexual assault survivors holding posters with quotes from their attackers.
I love you… the three words most long to hear and often are heartbroken when the phrase isn’t reciprocated from the person we are head over heels in love with. Well today, he told me he loved me and I almost missed it.
You see, it didn’t come in the form, “I LOVE YOU!”
No, it was presented in this statement, “My only concern is you not having time for your own business,” and for the remainder of the conversation he described his concerns for me and my dreams, his hopes for me and my dreams, and how he would be willing to assist me in making my dreams come true.
He didn’t say those 3 little words, and I am glad he did not because I would have missed out on the wealth of his love for me had I limited him to just the phrase, “I love you.” In my Teach Me How to Love post I said love is a verb and it is what you do not simply how you feel. Today he showed me his love and took 35mins and 26 seconds while running late for work to put his love in action for me.
Being that my love language is “Words of Affirmation,” I sometimes what to have love affirmed verbally and as a result, I use to look for others to show they love me through verbal validation. The reality is saying “I love you” is only one way to express love and while I am not negating the action of verbalizing love in those three words (because honestly, a person should be able to say it), I am saying, don’t limit the endless possibilities and methods for how another person shows their love. You may walk away from people who love you immensely all because they did not package it the way you want even though they were giving you what you want, need, and deserve… unconditional love.
Stevie Wonder’s These Three Words
These three words Sweet and simple These three words Short and kind These three words Always kindles An aching heart to smile inside
I believe that love is less of an emotion and more of an action because anyone can feel love for another person. However to show love requires one to go beyond their feelings and engage in action. I believe love does the following:
