Decentering Romance

Therapy For Black Girls | 11.09.2026 23:00
From the time we were little, the story was the same. The fairy tales, the rom-coms, the well-meaning aunties at every family function asking when you’re going to settle down. The message lands early and lands hard: a romantic partner is the prize, and everything else — your friendships, your passions, your family, your own becoming — is just the waiting room until they arrive. But what if that story sold us short? What if a romantic relationship was meant to be one rich part of a full life, not the whole point of it?