Zibby's Essay: "Making Time for Love This Valentine's Day"

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Happy Valentine's Day! I wrote this essay, "Making Time for Love This Valentine's Day" for SheHustleCollective.com. Don't mind me when I start crying at the end of the episode after I read it! It's about how I'm trying to do so much professionally that I've somehow neglected the people I love the most. Yes, I prioritize my kids, but what about my husband? My friends?! I feel like a giant failure. Can anyone relate? Hope you listen and enjoy this.... and I hope it encourages you to hug the people you love in your life a little closer today. There's not enough time in life these days, but love is the most timeless thing there is.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.0	Moms don't have time to read books. Please sign up for my newsletter at Zibiowens.com for updates on podcast guests and lots of live events.
0:21.2	Hi, happy Valentine's Day, everybody.
0:23.7	I don't know if you're having a great day or a terrible day.
0:26.8	Lord knows, over time I've had a lot of really bad Valentine's days and then some really
0:32.0	wonderful ones.
0:32.8	So I don't know.
0:33.9	You never know what the day is going to bring.
0:35.6	But for this year, at least, I'm trying to really enjoy it.
0:38.4	And I'm feeling very grateful to have all of you to share my experiences with. So I'm reading this essay. It's called Making Time for Love this Valentine's Day, which I published on she hustle collective.com. And it's really about my many failures and how I feel like I'm just kind of doing a bad job at a lot of things right now.
0:55.9	I don't know if anybody can relate to that.
0:57.8	And I'm trying to do so much.
1:00.2	And yet some other things soon to be slipping.
1:02.1	And I just thought I would write about it and hopefully make any of you who feel the same way feel a little bit better and make myself feel a little better.
1:10.4	And feel free to email me
1:12.4	or get in touch afterwards and maybe this will encourage you to hug the ones you love a little
1:17.3	closer after hearing it. Anyway, enough introduction. It's called Making Time for Love this
1:22.8	Valentine's Day. The words keep ringing in the air as we sit across from each other, our sandwiches
1:28.6	spread out between us. I just don't feel like you have time for me anymore. I don't even know
1:33.5	what to say. It feels like an accusation, but I know my husband means it as fact. It makes me feel
1:38.7	like a complete failure. How could I have made him feel this way? But in a way, I know he's right.
1:43.6	I don't feel like I have time for anything anymore. Life has been crazy busy for us lately, both of us, and not just because of the four kids, ages 5 through 12. As an entrepreneur, I'm constantly trying to build the brand I've created around my literary podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to read books. In addition to releasing three to five
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