Choosingyourself Stories

Elia never expected to be noticed, especially not by Aiden, her best friend's tall, charming, too-good-to-be-true boyfriend. With her oversized glasses, quiet ways, and insecurities she carried like a second skin, Elia had always been the invisible girl in the corner. Until she wasn't. Until he started looking at her like she mattered. What began as stolen glances grew into a love that broke the rules and broke someone's heart. Elia thought she had won, but when Aiden's lies finally came to light, everything she believed in shattered. Now, in the wreckage of what used to be love, Elia is left with the hardest question of all. Was he ever worth losing herself for? This is not just a love story. It is a story of betrayal, regret, and the slow, quiet work of healing. A story of learning to walk away, not to chase someone else, but to finally return to herself. Because sometimes the bravest thing a girl can do is choose herself.

BUY NOW ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/2z4P2Lz They thought love was something you prove. He discovered it was something you survive. When Noah comes home early and walks into a fight between the two women who claim to know him best-his fiancée and his closest friend-something inside him fractures. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Quietly. Irrevocably. What follows isn't a love triangle fueled by passion, but a slow, unsettling unraveling of how devotion turns into entitlement, how care becomes control, and how silence is mistaken for consent. As the women rewrite him in competing versions of who he's supposed to be, Noah begins a private reckoning-one that leads him not toward another romance, but toward himself. The Door I Closed First is a psychologically intimate romantic novel about emotional manipulation disguised as love, the courage it takes to step out of roles others assign you, and the quiet power of choosing freedom over being chosen. This is not a story about who wins his heart. It's about what happens when he stops offering it as proof.

Built From What Broke Me is an intimate, reflective journey through love, loss, self-discovery, and healing. With raw honesty and quiet strength, Emma Kabatesi explores what it means to love deeply in a world that doesn't always know how to hold softness. Through moments of heartbreak, self-abandonment, and awakening, she traces the path from giving too much of herself to finally learning how to choose herself. This book is for anyone who has ever loved too deeply, stayed too long, or lost themselves trying to keep others whole. It is for the ones learning that healing is not about becoming someone new - but about returning to who you were before the world taught you to shrink. Tender, reflective, and deeply human, Built From What Broke Me is a reminder that even the most painful chapters can become the foundation for something beautiful.

Meet the Real Ana A Story of Love, Control, and Choosing Herself Ana learns early that love and safety are not the same thing. At fifteen, she leaves home to protect herself, carrying with her a quiet understanding that care often comes with conditions. As she grows older, Ana searches for stability in relationships that promise security-but slowly discovers how easily protection can turn into control. When an older partner offers her a future free from financial struggle, Ana believes she has finally found safety. Instead, she learns how dependence can erase choice, and how silence can feel like peace until it costs too much. As expectations tighten and her independence narrows, Ana must confront a truth she has avoided for years: staying can be just as dangerous as leaving. Through love, restraint, betrayal, and quiet resolve, Ana begins to see herself clearly for the first time-not as someone to be protected, owned, or saved, but as someone capable of choosing her own life. Meet the Real Ana is a grounded, emotionally honest novel about growing up too soon, learning boundaries too late, and finding the courage to walk away without replacement. It is a story for readers who believe that real strength is built slowly-and that choosing yourself is the bravest act of all.

Brielle Carter left Chicago with a broken heart and a promise to herself-never to fall apart again. 3 years into her new life in New York, her career is finally taking off, and everything she worked for is within reach. She's learned how to be focused, guarded, and in control. Love was never part of the plan. Then she meets her. Calm where Brielle is restless. Steady where Brielle is still healing. What starts as coincidence slowly becomes something harder to ignore-something that feels like peace. Something that feels dangerous. But just as Brielle begins to open her heart, the past she ran from threatens to pull her back. Caught between who she was and who she's becoming, Brielle must decide if she's brave enough to choose herself... and the love she never thought she'd deserve.

I love me, they hate me because they want me

A story about choosing yourself over anything else. What do you do when everything becomes just okay? Not thrilling, not intense and not lighting each other up. ************* Author's note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

A collection of letters for the quiet hearts, the tired souls, and the ones who kept showing up even when no one asked how they were doing.

Isa ka ba sa babaeng pag nagmahal ay all in? yung tipong lahat binibigay mo? mas hinihigitan mo? mali ba yung dapat "daw" mas "mas" yung lalaki pero sa sobrang laki ng puso mo di mo mapigilang mas sumobra? mali ba yon? para ang laging sukli sayo is sakit lang? If you're like that person, is there a love that you deserve? will you be happy in the end?

Some dreams arrive quietly. They follow you. They wait for you. And sometimes, they break you before they become real. Zara comes to New York chasing the life she has always dream of - a life shaped by ambition, creativity, and independence. The city makes her feel seen, makes her feel like she belonged. What she didn't expect was colliding with someone she never saw coming - unaware that fate had already tied a string between them. Zayn is guarded, intense, composed on the surface. A man built from responsibility, expectations, and years of being what he needed to be. Behind the sharp edges and controlled silence is someone who once dreamed freely - someone who feeld restless after meeting Zara. Her presence had the power to ruin the walls he had built underneath him, how effortlessly she helped him out of his dark shell and showed what once felt possible. Their connection unfolds slowly in shared glances, slow, intense, and impossible to ignore - the kind that feels safe and dangerous at the same time. But life isn't a fairytale nor kind always. As friendships deepen and love grows, life begins to pull them in opposite directions. Choices are made. Trust is tested. Dreams are questioned. And Zara is forced to face the hardest and unexpected choices. To truly understand love, we must first learn to love ourselves - and become who we're meant to be. This is not just a love story. It's a story about ambition, heartbreak, found family, and the courage it takes to choose ourselves. Some endings are not meant to be final. Some stories are only the beginning.

Seventeen-year-old Valentina has always believed love is supposed to be loud. Loud like pop-punk music blasting out of a garage. Loud like sweaty concerts and late-night drives. Loud like Bryce Hawthorne - magnetic, elusive, and impossible to hold onto. Bryce gives Val just enough to keep her chasing him, disappearing whenever things start to feel real. He's the kind of love that burns bright and leaves scars, the kind that feels like destiny even when it hurts. Lennox has always been there. He's her best friend. Her bandmate. The one who holds her together after Bryce breaks her heart, who blocks Bryce from her view in crowded hallways, who knows her pain before she says a word. He loves her quietly, steadily, even when she keeps choosing someone else. Caught in a cycle of intensity and comfort, Val is forced to choose between the love that feels electric and the love that feels like home. When she finally does, she believes the chaos is over. She's wrong. A single night shatters everything, leaving Val drowning in grief, guilt, and the weight of a love that never got the chance to finish. As music becomes her lifeline, she begins to understand that some loves are meant to be felt deeply - but not all of them are meant to stay. Louder Than Goodbye is an emotionally charged YA romance about first love, toxic attachment, grief, and growing up. A story for anyone who loved too hard, stayed too long, and had to learn the difference between intensity and intimacy. 🎸 Pop-punk vibes. Found family. Love triangles. Healing. 💔 For fans of angsty teen romance and music-driven stories.

"And Now We Are Free" by Rhianne Elisse was raised to be someone's perfect bride-poised, polished, and promised to a man she no longer recognizes. But when she slowly walks away from an arranged (and loveless) engagement and a future she never truly wanted, Elisse begins to discover who she is beneath the expectations. With the help of loyal friends, quiet rebellion, and a few bitter run-ins with the past, she starts to reclaim her voice-and her freedom. In a world where appearances mean everything, Elisse is about to learn that choosing yourself is the boldest act of all.

I CHOOSE YOU is a story of love, loss and self-discovery. Tara, a girl who once believed in forever, faces betrayal, heartbreak, and the pain of losing herself. But through friendship, healing, and time, she learns that true love begins with choosing herself. A journey of letting go, finding strength, and embracing new beginnings, this book is for anyone who has ever lost themselves in love and found their way back.

This book is a collection of my thoughts and experiences. Everything written here is based on my personal experiences, which had both negative and positive impacts on me. It details how I faced challenges, let get of someone, even though it hurt. The content of this book is a compilation of various literary pieces. May the heart and soul of my words touched you.

She Chose Her Name is a short, heartfelt story about a quiet, anxious young woman who falls deeply in love with a boy she once admired from afar. Their connection feels perfect at first-mutual crush, instant spark, shared dreams. But when love slowly turns into control, silent punishments, and emotional imbalance, she begins to lose pieces of herself. Surrounded by a society full of cheating, dishonesty, and people pretending to be someone they're not, she struggles to understand what real love should feel like. This story becomes her journey of courage-learning to walk away, learning to choose herself, and learning that independence is not a flaw, but a strength. It is a reflection of modern relationships, self-respect, and rising again after heartbreak.