Hello and welcome to welcome back to Trinidad to Care. If you're new here, my name's Ashley. I

upload every single Monday and we just chat for a little bit. I gave you some advice, I gave you

some recommendations, sometimes I'd just be yapping. But today I want to talk about this idea

of going from enemies to lovers, but with yourself. The idea

to do this episode came to me from a Pinterest meme actually, and the meme said, enemies to lovers,

but it's with myself. And I was like, hell yeah. Absolutely. Yes, I want to do an episode on that.

Enemies to lover stories usually start out with two people who absolutely despise each other.

Everything that person does is so annoying. They're so frustrating.

They just get under your skin.

The thing about hating someone that much is it's passionate. You feel so

deeply for that person, even if it's not in a loving way. You hate them with a burning

passion. But the thing about passion is, it can switch. You hate them, but you're constantly thinking about them. So what if somewhere

between you thinking about them, you start viewing them as who they are rather than who you

believe them to be. Instead of villainizing them, you start looking at them as a person with feelings

and you start to at least try to understand them and the things that they've gone through.

And you see them as more than just their mistakes or their imperfections.

Well, that's when the passion might just turn from hate into love.

Take Blair and Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl, for example. Spoiler, if you

haven't watched, but I mean, come on, it's been over 10 years. I just started watching. Well,

I just finished it. But like, it's been 10 years. If you were going to watch it, you probably

would have watched it by now. But they are the classic enemies to lover story. Blair couldn't

stand Chuck. They spent years going

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