Walk A Mile In Her Shoes…….

Shoes are one of those constant things in a woman’s life. No matter how much your weight changes, how many times you cheat on your diet or whoever the new love of your life is you can always slip right into your beloved shoes. They come in all different shapes and sizes to fit everyone’s need or style. With some having skyscraper heels, others decorative laces, ones with fur and even ones stunningly bedazzled. We keep the ones that last the test of time no matter the wear/tear, while discarding the others that were a phase or too painful to walk more then 10 feet in. Shoes are much like relationships; they come in a wide variety. With only the wearer of the shoes knowing how they really fit and make them feel while standing in them. I’m confident all of us at sometime or another has had those relationships like bright red sky high heels that all your girlfriends go gaga with envy for, but only you know truth behind the glitz and glam is pain and how they hurt you every time you slip into them. Then there are those almost seeming allusive glass slipper relationships. They fit like a glove and you could wear them at all times of the day feeling like a princess. I have experienced many shoes through out my life. With each pair I have changed it up a bit, till one day hopefully I find that perfect fit. I have had the ones that left me bleeding and callus and the others that every time I put them on they feel like apart of me and I couldn’t imagine looking in my closet and not seeing them. Just like unhealthy relationships we try mending our broken heels or making them work even though they cause us blisters, we keep them around and continue slipping into them. I’m a victim of a pair or two that I don’t wear for awhile that will catch my eye making me wonder why it has been so long since my last stroll in them. Then I glide them on and the bruising/blisters starts up again with me asking myself “why do I keep returning and not throwing them out”. No mole skin or gel insert in the world will make them fit or function any better, sometimes it’s just time to say goodbye. With age I have found the key to great shoe/relationship shopping is trying them on by wearing them around the store before making the commitment to take them home and everything that comes with that attachment. In that short amount of time you will obtain quite a good idea of how functional the rest of your relationship will be. Just like we test drive cars before we make that final purchase, we need to remember to walk a store mile in our new shoes to try out that new pair we got our eye on.