It's your favorite home girl back for another episode of Girl Stop Playing.

And this week, I have an interview that I am beyond excited to share with y'all.

But before I do, let me just let you know the inspiration behind this conversation that you are about to tap into.

So I don't know how many of y'all have been here since my single wives club days. If you have no idea what that is,

I started this organization back in 2012 after I got out of an abusive relationship where I was engaged to be married and realized that

although I still desired to become a wife, I was not prepared. I didn't know anything about

being a wife because my focus had been on planning this wedding. And after I got out of this

crazy toxic relationship, I wanted to create a support group

for myself and ended up creating this global movement for other single women who were preparing

to become wives.

But that relationship taught me so much about myself. It taught me so much about trusting your gut,

believing in spirit, acting on your intuition, looking for, you know, the signs. I didn't

know what a narcissist was back then. I know everybody thinks everybody is a narcissist in 2025,

but that term was not around. I just knew that this man

that I was engaged to was crazy. That's the only way that I could describe it. I thought that he had

to be a sociopath, a psychopath, some kind of path. He was on some type of path to destruction

and he was taking me right along with him.

And one of the things that I have realized since then, that was a long time ago,

but I've realized that these type of men have patterns and the signs are usually always there.

And so just a couple of days ago, I posted on threads,

like, you got to stop marrying men who don't like you. The signs are always there. And I got a

whole bunch of yes, girl, yes. But then I got a lot of comments that were like, well, why are you

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