"The biggest mistake we make is that we build our homes in other
people. We build those homes and we decorate them with the
love and care and respect that makes us feel safe at the end of
the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our self-
worth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what
many don't realize is that when you build your home in other
people, you give them the power to make you homeless. When
those people walk away, those homes walk away with them, and
all of a sudden, we feel empty because everything that we had
within us, we put into them. We trusted someone else with
pieces of us. The emptiness we feel doesn't mean we have
nothing to give, or that we have nothing within us. It's just that
we built our home in the wrong place."